Nuremberg Chronicle, Sexta Etas Mundi, Leaf CCXVII
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Nuremberg Chronicle (Schedelsche Weltchronik): Sexta Etas Mundi, Leaf CCXVII, Hartmann Schedel, 1493.
Latin.
43x29cm.
Description of woodcuts recto:
* A bridge collapsing under a group of dancers at Maastricht (the story is that the dancers did not show respect to a passing priest and as punishment the bridge collapsed and 200 people were killed; the only illustration related to the Netherlands; attributed by some experts to the young Albrecht Durer [see Mende, Durer #25]; [see www.facebook.com/Musees.Strasbourg/photos/a.285995008147349/1891368287610005/?type=3: "Albrecht Dürer, 'Couples dansants chutant dans une rivière en châtiment de leur attitude irrespectueuse lors de la Fête Dieu'; gravure tirée de Hartmann Schedel, Chronique de Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493, folio CCXVII recto.; Strasbourg, Cabinet des Estampes et des Dessins])
* A lion with a man's head
* Male conjoined (Siamese) twins
Description of woodcuts verso:
* Portrait of Pope Martinus Quartus [Martin IV] (born Simon de Brion, served 1281-1285)
* Portrait of Pope Honorius Quartus [Honorius IV] (born Giacomo Savelli, served 1285-1287)
* Two men catching a sea lion with a fishing net
Translation of Latin text recto:
https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=nur;cc=nur;rgn=div2;view=text;idno=nur.001.0004;node=nur.001.0004%3A8.258
Translation of Latin text verso:
https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=nur;cc=nur;rgn=div2;view=text;idno=nur.001.0004;node=nur.001.0004%3A8.259
Latin.
43x29cm.
Description of woodcuts recto:
* A bridge collapsing under a group of dancers at Maastricht (the story is that the dancers did not show respect to a passing priest and as punishment the bridge collapsed and 200 people were killed; the only illustration related to the Netherlands; attributed by some experts to the young Albrecht Durer [see Mende, Durer #25]; [see www.facebook.com/Musees.Strasbourg/photos/a.285995008147349/1891368287610005/?type=3: "Albrecht Dürer, 'Couples dansants chutant dans une rivière en châtiment de leur attitude irrespectueuse lors de la Fête Dieu'; gravure tirée de Hartmann Schedel, Chronique de Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493, folio CCXVII recto.; Strasbourg, Cabinet des Estampes et des Dessins])
* A lion with a man's head
* Male conjoined (Siamese) twins
Description of woodcuts verso:
* Portrait of Pope Martinus Quartus [Martin IV] (born Simon de Brion, served 1281-1285)
* Portrait of Pope Honorius Quartus [Honorius IV] (born Giacomo Savelli, served 1285-1287)
* Two men catching a sea lion with a fishing net
Translation of Latin text recto:
https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=nur;cc=nur;rgn=div2;view=text;idno=nur.001.0004;node=nur.001.0004%3A8.258
Translation of Latin text verso:
https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=nur;cc=nur;rgn=div2;view=text;idno=nur.001.0004;node=nur.001.0004%3A8.259
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