Detail View: Rylands Collection: Secunda etas mundi

Image Number: 
JRL17062626
Reference Number: 
Incunable 4067
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Secunda etas mundi
Alternative Image Title: 
Fourteen creatures
Alternative Image Title: 
Hartmann Schedel's map of the World
Parent Work Title: 
Liber chronicarum
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
The Nuremberg Chronicle
Translated Parent Work Title: 
Book of Chronicles
Creator: 
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514
Creator Role: 
Author
Creator: 
Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513
Creator Role: 
Printer
Creator: 
Wolgemut, Michael, 1434-1519
Creator Role: 
Illustrator
Creator: 
Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm, -1494
Creator Role: 
Illustrator
Date Created: 
1493-07-12
Publication Details: 
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister; Germany Nuremberg.
Page/Sheet: 
XII
Description: 
Verso of Schedel's world map. Fourteen scenes, panels representing creatures such as armed man, a centaur, a four-eyed man from a coastal tribe in Ethiopia, a dog-headed man from the Simien Mountains, a cyclops, a man with a single giant foot, a man with a huge lower lip, a man with ears hanging down to his waist, and other frightening and fanciful creatures.
Language Code: 
lat
Language: 
Latin
Category of Material: 
Printed
Sub-Category: 
Incunabula
Technique Used: 
Woodcut (process)
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Paper
Item Height: 
500 mm
Item Width: 
344 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2017-06-26
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2017-07
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB