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This is an old colored leaf from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). It's one of the most famous and richly illustrated incunabula, or early printed works. It was created on commission and authored in Latin by Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514), a physician and humanist from Nuremberg.The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated world history of the seven ages the world has known (the seventh is yet to come), which were widely accepted in the Middle Ages.

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details_sizedescription	Elephant Folio
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details_widthcm	31.5
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details_auteur_code	SCHEDEL
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