The Nuremberg Chronicle

As most will know, the Nuremberg Chronicle (Latin academics refer to it as Liber Chronicarum or Book of Chronicles) is an illustrated world history structured to follows the story of human history as related in the Bible; it includes the histories of a number of important Western cities. It appeared in 1493, and was one of the earliest European printed books.

Some 700 copies still exist in 2011 (around 400 in Latin, and 300 in German): our vocalist Biscuit procured one from a collector on our recent visit to Germany. He thought it was a colouring book.

But .......... not so stupid! Back in the 15^th Century, many copies were hand-coloured after printing.

Specialist shops were set up throughout southern Germany to colour the Chronicle, which was not only a world history to that date (as recorded within the first 6 ‘ages’ of the book) but also an outlook on the end of the world written from a religious perspective (Last Judgement).

This is our homage to The Nuremberg Chronicle.