1493 SCHEDEL, H. - This is the second time Iceland appears on a printed map, authored by Hieronymus Münzer. A woodcut printed map, published in 1493, in Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicum, or The Nuremberg Chronicle.
Germania Magna (Europe continent map, folio XXVI)
| Maker: | SCHEDEL, H. | |
| Date: | Nuremberg, 1493 | |
| Colored: | Colored. | |
| Size: | 393 x 580 mm / 15.5 x 22.8 inches | |
| Condition: | Left and right margin cut to image border and remargined for protective reason. Some paper thinning along center fold. Good impression, but generally fair condition. | |
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The first modern map of the area. The second printed map of the North, and the second time Iceland appears on a printed map. Published in 1493 in Hartmann Schedel ’s Liber Chronicum, or The Nuremberg Chronicle.
With Latin text colophon on verso. The map is also deemed to be the first printed map of Germany, even if it shows a larger area, including all of Poland, Lithuania etc.
One of the earliest depictions of Iceland on a printed map.
W. B. Grinsberg characterized this map as the first modern map of northern and central Europe. The map ranges from the British Isles to Constantinople. The designer has been identified as Hieronymus Münzer (1437-1508), who trained as a physician. The Münzer map is one of the earliest to depict the Scandinavia peninsula.
Nordenskold credits the map of the north in the Zamoyski codes as the prototype for this map. The source for the central European portion is a 1460 manuscript map of Germany by Cardinal Nicolas Cusanus (also Nicholas of Cusa), printed posthumously at Eichstätt in 1491.
The woodblock cutter was Michael Wolgemut, the well-known teacher of Albrecht Dürer. Wohlgemut was Albrecht Dürer's tutor between 1486-1490. Since the young Dürer was active in Wohlgemut's printers shop during the time the woodblock for the Nuremberg Chronicle was produced, he may also have collaborated, since some of the cuts bear a remarkably close resemblance to his Apocalypse illustrations.
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