Destruccio Iherosolime

Author/Creator:

Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514

Publication/Creation:

[Nuremberg] : [Anton Koberger], [1493].

Resource Type:

Map

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Destruccio Iherosolime

Series Titles:

Exhibited: Pitts Theology Library. Materiality of Devotion: From Manuscript to Print.

Related/Included Titles:

Liber chronicarum.

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514. Liber chronicarum
Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513, printer
Wolgemut, Michael, 1434-1519, cartographer
Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm, -1494, cartographer

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Early works
History
Maps

Subjects:

Jerusalem--Maps--Early works to 1800
Jerusalem--History
Palestine--Maps--Early works to 1800

Description/Summary

Summary:

This imagined view of the destruction of Jerusalem is taken from Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarurn (leaf LXIIII). Schedel was a German humanist and historian. His book, more commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, divides world history into six ages - from Creation until the present (1493). The work owes its extreme popularity to the fine woodcuts by the artists Wolgemuth and Preydenwurff. Many of these woodcuts are sheer fantasy, such as that of the present Destruction of Jerusalem. Nonetheless, historians find of value those woodcuts that reflect the reality of several contemporary towns. In the left foreground Solomon's Temple goes up in flames while spectators converse nonchalantly. At the extreme right is the road to Bethlehem, south of Jerusalem. The verso of the sheet includes a woodcut scene of the last king of Judea, Zedekiah, blinded and led away into Babylonian captivity by the wicked Nebuchadnezzar. The facing page is surrounded hy the the last prophets and kings of old Judea: Haggai and Malachi, Joachim and Zerubabel.

Language:

Latin

Physical Type/Description:

1 view : illustrations ; 26 x 54 cm., on sheet 46 x 65 cm.

General Note:

Panoramic view of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. by the Romans.
Verso: Text and illustrations of the destruction of Jerusalem.
From: Chronicle of Nuremberg.

Related Resources Link:

Exhibited: "The Materiality of Devotion: From Manuscript to Print" Pitts Theology Library, December 17, 2018 - March 17, 2019

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990035776580302486

OCLC Number:

811346063