Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle, Lucas, evangelist, John, evangelist, Maria Magdalena

"Sexta etas mundi Folium CVIII (108)"

Lucas, evangelist - Maria Magdalena

Verso: John, evangelist tortured in boiling oil

Portraits: Pope Clemens Romanus - Pope Anaklet (Anaclet) (the second to follow St. Peter, an important early leader of the Roman Church) - Pope Evaristus, the fifth Pope, leader of the Roam Church.

Woodcuts on the complete text page.

Latin edition

Published in May, 1493

This is a wonderful example of the highest quality of original hand coloring, so exquisite in fact, that there is not the slightest criticism is appropriate.

Maria Magdalena, the only woman, except for His mother Mary, who was close to Jesus, shown here as a saint with her foot long hair covering her nakedness and held by the four arch angels (Christian tradition): Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel, while she hovers above the Holy Cross of Golgatha and the city of Jerusalem. Maria Magdalena was present at the side of Jesus at his Crucifiction.

St. Lucas, upper left corner, looking at a painting of Mother Mary and Jesus as a child on an easel. The Lucas symbol, the bull, here given a halo.

Aside from the equally carefully hand-colored pope portraits verso, Saint John, the youngest of the evangelists, and the only one who died a natural death, is shown tortured in a cauldron of boiling oil.

Full page has only minimal traces of age and use. The page comes obviously from a very special Chronicle. The diligence and carefulness of the application of well chosen colors suggest and indicate this.

Image Maria Magdalena: 21,4 x 13,5 cm (ca. 8.4 x 5.3")

Image Lucas, evangelist: 9,8 x 7,8 cm (ca. 3.9 x 3")

Image John Evangelist tortured: 9.8 x 8 cm (ca. 3.9 x 3.1")

Full sheet: 45 x 31 cm (ca. 17,7 x 12,2")