Lot 77
Destruction of Jerusalem – Double Incunable Leaf from Hartmann Schedel's "Nuremberg Chronicle", 1493
Destruccio Iherosolime [Destruction of Jerusalem]. Woodcut from Schedelsche Weltchronik (The Nuremberg Chronicle) by Hartmann Schedel. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493]. One of the first views of Jerusalem ever printed.
A woodcut depicting the destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple by Babylonian general Nabuzaradan in the year 586 BCE. Taken from the first German edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, published several months after the Latin edition. On verso, a woodcut depicting King Zedekiah led into Babylonian captivity.
"The Nuremberg Chronicle" comprised a history of the world from creation up to the author's time, based on the Bible and on various other sources. The book, first printed in Anton Koberger's press in Nuremberg in 1493, is considered one of the best-documented incunabula. It was one of the first books to integrate illustrations and text and is famous to this day, mainly for its numerous woodcuts. The woodcuts were provided by the workshop of Michael Wolgemut, one of Nuremberg's leading artists at the time (in whose workshop Albrecht Dürer was apprenticed between 1486-1489).
Leaf: approx. 43X61 cm. Good condition. Stains. Tears and several small holes, restored. Framed; unexamined out of frame.
Laor 1125A.
