$123
Incunabula Leaves, Nuremberg Chronicle, Two Framed Leaves, One Hand-colored. Folio thirty-seven, text in Latin, with a description of one of the Trojan Wars on the recto, with eight woodcut portraits of related rulers; the text on the verso is an abridgement of several chapters from Numbers 25, illustrated with nine portraits in the margins; [and] Folio 195 from a German edition of the text, hand-colored, with one small woodcut of Bishop Hildebert of Lavardin (c. 1055-1133) and the spear that pierced Christ's side on the recto, and a large woodcut of a Cistercian monastery on the verso, with woodcuts of two abbots beneath; each leaf matted in its own modern, gilt, double-glazed frame. (2)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31
