COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL17062626
Reference Number:
Incunable 4067
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Secunda etas mundi
Alternative Image Title:
Fourteen creatures
Alternative Image Title:
Hartmann Schedel's map of the World
Parent Work Title:
Liber chronicarum
Alternative Parent Work Title:
The Nuremberg Chronicle
Translated Parent Work Title:
Book of Chronicles
Creator:
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513
Creator Role:
Printer
Creator:
Wolgemut, Michael, 1434-1519
Creator Role:
Illustrator
Creator:
Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm, -1494
Creator Role:
Illustrator
Date Created:
1493-07-12
Publication Details:
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister; Germany Nuremberg.
Page/Sheet:
XII
Description:
Verso of Schedel's world map. Fourteen scenes, panels representing creatures such as armed man, a centaur, a four-eyed man from a coastal tribe in Ethiopia, a dog-headed man from the Simien Mountains, a cyclops, a man with a single giant foot, a man with a huge lower lip, a man with ears hanging down to his waist, and other frightening and fanciful creatures.
Language Code:
lat
Language:
Latin
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Incunabula
Technique Used:
Woodcut (process)
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Item Height:
500 mm
Item Width:
344 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2017-06-26
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2017-07
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Secunda etas mundi
