"Das bůch Der croniken unnd geschichten mit figuren und pildnussen von Anbeginn der welt bis auff diese unsere Zeyt", (Schedel and Alt, 1496, fol. Ir).
The book of chronicles and histories with characters and illustrations from the beginning of the world to this day
Tables (Tab_fol_1r to Tab_fol_6r, NC_tab_astro01 to NC_tab_astro03, NC_tab_cmp, NC_tab_timeline, NC_note01, NC_note02) from the Nuremberg Chronicle, fol. Ir to VIIr, s. Tab. 1 (Schedel, 1493; Schedel and Alt, 1493, 1496, res.):
"Creatio re[rum] senario numero explicatur. Cuius partes, unu[m]: duo: tria sunt, que in trigonu[m] surga[n]t. In primo creatione[m]. In secundo [et] tercio dispositione[m]. In reliquis ornatum Moyses per opera sex die[rum] ostendit.", (Schedel, 1493, fol. IIr).
The creation of things is explained by numbers. Their parts are one, two, three, which form a triangle. In the first creation. In the second and third arrangement. In the rest ornament, as Moses shows through the works of six days.
Table 1. Headings and contents of fol. Ir to fol. VIIr (Schedel, 1493; Schedel and Alt, 1493, 1496, res.).
page content
Foliu[m] I recto Epitoma operu[m] sex dieru[m] de mu[n]di fabrica Prologus
fo. .1. Ein kurtze beschreybung des wercks der sechs tag von dem geschöpff der werlt die vorrede.
Das erst Blat Das bůch Der croniken unnd geschichten mit figuren und pildnussen von Anbeginn der welt bis auff diese unsere Zeyt
verso
Ein kurtze beschreybung des wercks der sechsz tag vo[n] dem geschöpff d[er] welte die vorrede.
Folium II recto
Blat II
Das ander Blat
verso De opere prime diei.
Vom werck des erste[n] tags
Foliu[m] III recto De opere secunde diei.
Blat III Vom werck des andern tags
Das drit Blat
verso De opere tercie diei.
Vom werck des dritten tags
Vo[m] werck des erste[n] tags vo[m] werck des andern ta.
Foliu[m] IIII recto De opere quarte diei.
Blat IIII Vom werck des vierden tags
Das vierdt Blat vo[m] werck des dritte[n] tags
verso De opere quinte diei.
Vom werck des funffte[n] tags
Vom werck des vierden tages
Foliu[m] V recto De opere sexte diei.
Blat V Vom werck des sechten tags
Das v. Blat Vom werck des .v. tags
verso De sanctificatione septime diei
Von beheyligung des siebenden tags
Von beheyligung des siebenden tags
Foliu[m] VI recto Queda[m] circa spera[m] planetaru[m] et orbiu[m] declara[n]da.
Blat VI
Das vi. Blat
verso Prima etas mundi
Das erst alter.
Das erst alter.
Foliu[m] VII recto Etas prima mundi
Blat VII der werlt
Das vii. Blat der welt
„ […] The Nuremberg Chronicle […] is one of the most important and most beautiful books of the incunabula era. Both the Latin version […] and the German version […] were printed in the offices of Anton Koberger who owned one of Europe's largest printing houses of the period. […] Following medieval traditions, the author divides the history of mankind into seven ages: the first age extended from the creation to the deluge; the second from the deluge to the birth of Abraham, the third to the kingdom of David; the fourth covered the period […] to the Babylonian Captivity; the fifth to the birth of Christ; the sixth […] from the birth of Christ to the present; and the seventh dealt with the arrival of the Antichrist and the Last Judgment.", (Bernstein, 2002, p. 1422; c.f. Tab. 2).
Table 2. Etates mu[n]di (Schedel, 1493, fol. VIr).
AM BC
age hebr lxx hebr lxx Etas
I 1656 2242 2309 2959 ad diluuiu[m]
II 1948 3184 2017 2017 ad natiuitatem abrahe
III 2889 4124 1076 1077 ad iniciu[m] regni Dauid
IIII 3373 4609 592 592 ad transmigrat[i]o[n]em babilonis
V 3963 5199 2 2 ad benedicta[m] nativitatem [christ]i
VI, VII ad finem mundi, quiescentium
VIII resurgentium
Primarily influenced by Conrad Celtis (1459-1476), Martin Behaim (1459-1507), Johannes Müller (Regiomontanus, 1436-1476) and Johannes Werner (1468-1522), is the text mainly based on the Supplementum Chronicarum (Foresti, 1492), as well as on the Speculum Naturale (De Beauvais, 1264a) based on the Historia Naturalis of Plinius Secundus (1250, 1455) and Speculum Historiale (De Beauvais, 1264b) from the Speculum Maius (Ferguson, 1886; Young, 1930; De Beauvais, 1964; White, 1992; Albrecht, 2000), further on the Vitæ Pontificum (Platina, 1481), the Summa Historialis (c.f. Walker, 1930), on works by Biondo (e.g. 1484, 2005, res.) as well as on geographical and cosmographic works by Ptolemæus (1100, 1482; Tudeer, 1917; Neugebauer, 1959; Talbert, 2002), Strabo (1469; Manutius and Asulanus, 1516) and Mela (1477, 1518).
See also Haitz (1899), Schnieper (1950), Sladeczek (1965), Rücker (1988) or Green (2003). Englisch translations, facsimile or translations are given by Hadavas (2023), Schedel (2010), Zellmann-Roher and Hadavas (2011a, b, 2012a, b, res.).
For a (full) raw transcripton of the Early New High German (ENHG) text see Wikisource contributors (2025), for ENHG dictionaries see Goebel et al. (1989). An annotated transcription of the Latin text (fol. Ir to VIIr) is given by Schrausser (2024).
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