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Germany: The Nuremberg Chronicle, The Holy Spirit, Mary and the Twelve Apostles.

Germany: The Nuremberg Chronicle, The Holy Spirit, Mary and the Twelve Apostles.

The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated world history. Its structure follows the story of human history as related in the Bible; it includes the histories of a number of important Western cities. Written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel, with a version in German translation by Georg Alt, it appeared in 1493. It is one of the best-documented early printed books - an incunabulum (printed, not hand-written) - and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text.

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