Desruccio Iherosolime. Panoramic, imaginative map of Jerusalem in its destruction. Incunabula.
View from east to west. The Temple burning. By Hartmann Schedel. From: “Liber Cronicarum” [known as “The Nurnberg Chronicle”]. Nurnberg, 1493, leaf LXIIII (in the upper right corner). Woodcut. By Michael Wohlgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. One of the first original maps of Jerusalem still extant today. Latin text on the reverse along with anti-Semitic illustrations.
The map and illustrations on the reverse were painted by an artist with bold colors soon after the leaf was printed.
Latin. Printed on a page spread. 38.5×54.5 cm.
Quality paper. Matted. Very fine condition.
Laor 1125.