Hartmann Schedel - De Kroniek van Neurenberg - Tegenpaus Nicolaas V, Bonaventura & Rinaldo d'Este - sexta etas mund - 1497

This original incunabula leaf (woodcut) comes from the rare, abridged Latin edition of the famous Nuremberg Chronicle, printed on February 1, 1497 by Johann Schönsperger in Augsburg [Liber Chronicarum, Schedel]. It concerns the complete leaf Folium CCLIIII (254) with an overall sheet size of about 30 x 19 cm. The front side shows the page number and includes, among other things, the city history of Munich and the granting of imperial privileges. The page is richly illustrated with three hand-colored woodcuts: the nobleman Rinaldo I d’Este with a sword, the scholar Mapheus of Bergamo (Maffeo), and a large, highly detailed woodcut of a fortified medieval monastery complex that depicts the headquarters of the Portuguese Order of Christ (