Title extracted from woodcut title of register (leaf [1a], 1st group), which reads: Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum cu[m] figuris et ymagi[ni]bus ab inicio mu[n]di.
Compiled by Hartmann Schedel.
Illustrated by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff.
Imprint from Goff.
First colophon (leaf CCLXVI recto) reads: Completo in famosissima Nurembergensi vrbe operi de hystorijs etatum mundi ac descriptione vrbium. Felix imponitur finis. Collectum breui tempore auxilio doctoris Hartma[n]ni Schedel, qua fieri potuit diligentia. Anno [Christ]i millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimotercio, die quarto mensis Iunij. Deo igitur optimo. Sint laudes infinite.
Second colophon (leaf [1b], 3rd group) reads: Abest nunc studiose lector finis Libri cronicarum per viam epithomatis [et] breuiarij compilati opus q[ui]dem preclarum. ... Ad intuitu[m] autem [et] preces prouidoru[m] ciuiu[m] Sebaldi Schreyer [et] Sebastiani Kamermaister hunc librum dominus Anthonius Koberger Nuremberge impressit. ... Consummatu[m] autem duodecima mensis Iulij, anno Salutis n[ost]re, 1493.
Leaves printed on both sides.
Unsigned gatherings.
Leaves CCLX and CCLXI are blank, except for running titles and foliation.
Errors in foliation: leaves XXIX and CCXXIX misnumbered respectively as XIXX and CCXXX.
Spaces for initials.
"De Sarmacia regione Europe" --Leaves [2]-[5] (3rd group); misbound in Dibner Library copy between leaves CCLXVI and CCLXVII.
Includes index.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Autograph on t.p.: Hieronimus Reyff, anno 1570.
Partially illegible inscription from a Carthusian monastery, dated 1493, on t.p. of register.
Some old ms. notes in margins, including a note on a tipped-in scrap of paper on leaf CLXX recto.
Bound in contemporary blind-tooled alum-tawed pigskin over bevelled wooden boards; raised bands; metal bosses and clasps wanting.