On this day in 1493, what may be considered the first coffee table book was published, (in its Latin version) thus making coffee popular among the wealthy cafe set! Hartmann Schedels Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is an illustrated biblical paraphrase and world history that follows the story of human history related in the Bible, and includes the histories of a number of important Western cities. Written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel, a version in German was translated by Georg Alt, it appeared in 1493. It is one of the best-documented early printed books—an incunabulum —and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text. Two Nuremberg merchants, Sebald Schreyer (1446–1503) and his son-in-law, Sebastian Kammermeister (1446–1520), commissioned the Latin version of the Chronicle. They also commissioned George Alt (1450–1510), a scribe at the Nuremberg treasury, to translate the work into German. Both Latin and German editions were printed by Anton Koberger, in Nuremberg. Kudos, dudes! The author of the text, Hartmann Schedel, was a medical doctor, humanist and book collector. He earned a doctorate in medicine in Padua in 1466, then settled in Nuremberg to practice medicine and collect books. According to an inventory done in 1498, Schedels personal library contained 370 manuscripts and 670 printed books. The author used passages from the classical and medieval works in this collection to compose the text of Chronicle. He borrowed most frequently from another humanist chronicle, Supplementum Chronicarum, by Jacob Philip Foresti of Bergamo. It has been estimated that about 90% of the text is pieced together from works on humanities, science, philosophy, and theology, while about 10% of the Chronicle is Schedel’s original composition. The Chronicle is an illustrated world history, in which the contents are divided into seven ages: First age: from creation to the Deluge Second age: up to the birth of Abraham Third age: up to King David Fourth age: up to the Babylonian captivity Fifth age: up to the birth of Jesus Christ Sixth age: up to the present time (the largest part) Seventh age: outlook on the end of the world and the Last Judgement Odd, I was trying to check out the video on how a 600 year old book was found in Utah, and youtube sez it cant be shown due to copyright! And an honorable mention in publishing and Slavic, on this day in 1580 the Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, was published. The Ostrog Bible (Ukrainian: Острозька Біблія; Russian: Острожская Библия) was one of the earliest East Slavic translations of the Bible and the first complete printed edition of the Bible in Old Church Slavonic, and was published in Ostroh, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and present Lunakrainia, aka Banderistan. The significance of the Ostrog Bible was enormous for Orthodox education, which had to resist strong Catholic pressure in Ukraine and Belarus. youtube/watch?v=OhvVxI1BGMA
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 22:54:10 +0000
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