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Nuremberg Chronicle
The Nuremberg Chronicle was published in both German and Latin
in 1493. While produced in Nuremberg, it actually chronicles the most
important cities in Germany and other aspects pertaining to social and
cultural life in the 1490s. It was enthusiastically received by the people
of the day, and reprinted three times within the space of a decade.
Those involved in the publication were neighbours. The compiler Hartmann
Schedel (1440-1514) lived at no. 19 Gasse unter der Veste, the patron
and publisher Sebald Schreyer lived at no. 9, the printer Anton Koberger
lived at no. 3, while artist Michael Wohlgemut, who contributed many of
the 652 illustrations in the book (along with his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff),
lived at no.21. Albrecht Dürer, Koberger's godson, trained in
Wohlgemut's workshop and may have had a hand in producing some of
the woodcuts. This facsimile is based on the copies in the Herzogin Anna
Amalia Library at Weimar.
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Elsner's Observations
Jacob Elsner (1692-1750) was a theological teacher well-known for his commentaries on the Bible. This vellum backed edition of Jacob Elsner's Observationes was once owned by Dr Arnold Ehrhardt, a lecturer of Ecclesiastical History at Manchester University (as a student he was known to have taken his notes in Latin). It was donated (along with other books) to Special Collections by his son Dr Christopher Ehrhardt, late Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Otago. Note the two colour printing on the title-page.
