The Last Judgement.

Woodcut, 36,5 x 23 cm, laid paper (trimmed just outside borderline, some min. brown spots).

Final folio (265) from the German edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum), the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th c. The 2 editions (Latin and German) were planned simultaneously, each with its own specially designed new type, and both with the same woodcuts; the Latin ed. preceded the German by about 5 months. The text is a universal history of the Christian world from the beginning of time to the early 1490s, written in Latin by the Nuremberg physician and humanist Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514). The woodcut depicts a blessing Christ as judge during the Last Judgement, with German text of colophon on verso.
Joined: Folio 5 from the 1st Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Representation of the Creation of Man in tondo and the map of the celestial spheres with the Zodiac. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493. Woodcuts 43,4 x 29 cm (full folio), laid paper (some brown stains, contemp. ms. underlinings). (2 pcs)