The Last Judgement.

Woodcut, 43,6 x 27,1 cm (folio), laid paper, Latin gothic lettertext on verso.

Stuck under passe-partout.

Folio 265 from the 1st Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th c. The 2 editions (Latin and German) were planned simultaneously, each with its own specially designed new type, and both with the same woodcuts; the Latin ed. preceded the German by about 5 months. The text is a universal history of the Christian world from the beginning of time to the early 1490s, written in Latin by the Nürnberg physician and humanist Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514). The woodcut depicts a blessing Christ as judge during the Last Judgement.
Ref. ISTC is00307000. - GW M40784. - Goff S-307. - Polain 3469. - A. Wilson, The making of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1976). - C. Reske, Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg (2000).