La Chronique Universelle

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Hartmann Schedel’s Weltchronik was a groundbreaking illustrated encyclopedia and the most lavishly illustrated book ever printed in Europe. Featuring over 1,800 woodcuts, this complete facsimile faithfully reproduces a rare hand-colored copy, offering essays and vivid depictions of biblical scenes and views of 15th-century life.

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Hartmann Schedel’s Weltchronik was a groundbreaking illustrated encyclopedia and the most lavishly illustrated book ever printed in Europe. Featuring over 1,800 woodcuts, this complete facsimile faithfully reproduces a rare hand-colored copy, offering essays and vivid depictions of biblical scenes and views of 15th-century life.

Review quote:
“This publication gives us a window into another world, a world as strange as our own.”