Religious, Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle, Monsters, Siamese Twins, Honorius II, Innocentius II, Celestinus II.
Sexta etas mundi page CXCVIII (198)
Type of print: Woodcut
Black & white
Publication: Nuremberg Chronicle
Author: Hermann Schedel (1440-1514)
Edition: Latin edition
Printed: Nuremberg, 1493
Main part of page is devoted to a portrait of St. Bernard of Clervaux
Other images:
Symbolized rain, thunder, hail. The moon with a human face.
A man by the name Johannes (John at the time of Charlemagne)
Holding in his hand one of the first ever printed looking glasses
Further:
Petrus Alfonsi (Moses Sephardi) Spanish medical doctor: Author of
"Disciplina cléricales"
VERSO images:
Otto (Bishop in Bamberg)
Popes:
Honorius II.
Innocentius II.
Celestinus II.
King Balduin III (Jerusalem)
Condition: Age toning. One repair of a small piece of paper in the text of St. Bernard of Clervaux. The repair was obviously done in a former century. Repair paper used is that o printing time. The few missing letters of text on either side have been added in hand-written black ink.
A few signs of age and use in margins. See images. The black is scanning background. Does not exist!
Page size: 44 x 29 cm ( 17.3 x 11.4 ")