The Nuremburg Chronicle
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1493 (first edition published)
Illustrator: Michael Wohlgemuth and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff
Medium: Black printing ink on laid paper
Object number: P.45.16
DescriptionPortrait of 'Gio Astronimus' holding a globe or navigational instrument. Below - a woodcut of a small village, and a group of women talking in the foreground (the text descibes agitation in the provinces of Francone Germanie in 1476).
