Liber chronicarum.

3 ff. (93, 96, 186), 45 x 31 cm, gothic text (sl. foxing, sm. repairs at edges, folds on f. 186).

1st Latin edition of 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 Nürnberg physician and humanist Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514). These folios include woodcuts depicting the Roman figures of Julius Caesar, Augustus and Marc Anthony, the Tiburtine Sibyl, Livy, Valerius Maximus. Fol. 186 contains the family tree of the German emperors from Liodolf (ca. 850) to Henry II (11th c.).