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The Nurenberg Chronicle, Folio CLI
The Nurenberg Chronicle, Folio CLI

The Nurenberg Chronicle, Folio CLI

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Date1493
Mediumwoodcut.
ClassificationsInformation Forms
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number1970.21.2
Descriptiontop right: standing portrait of Eraclius; bottom: 4 cuts showing the coming of the heavens, a figure with 4 legs and 4 arms, a rainbow, and a figure with 2 heads; verso: the story of Machometas; at top left a man kneeling before an enthroned emperor with a book; to the right of th emperor a standing figure points at the kneeling man; to the right a standing figure with a sword below a portrait in each corner. By Hartmann Schedel, printed by Antonius Koberger
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