This book, commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, consists of xylographic plates, an example of book production before the wider availability of the printing press. It tells the story of the world according to the Biblical tradition. It contains some 2,000 drawings by Michael Wolgemut, who taught the Renaissance painter Alberto Durero (1471-1528). ................................................................................................ The declarations of nobility are documents with which nobility and pure blood was certified for those requesting it. They were indispensable documents in order to obtain a coat of arms, a nobility title or the possibility to enter the army, the Church or university. ............................ Books of hours, generally in small format, were personal prayer books. They contained prayers to be said at specific times of the day, and generally included meticulously illuminated illustrations. ........................................................ In 1605 the first edition of the first part of Don Quixote de la Mancha was published in Madrid by Juan de la Cuesta. ........................................................ This edition of El quijote de La Mancha , is the first translation into a foreign language. Only two other editions are known to exist, one in the British Museum and the other in the Isidro Bonsoms collection, in Barcelona. |
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