This print is of Papia (now Pavia) in Northern Italy. Some images represent actual cities, and other images are purely imaginative. These woodblocks include views of cities and towns, battles, kings, and saints. The woodcut illustrations were made in the workshop of Michael Wolgemut, with an unpredcedented number of 1,809 illustrations. Published and printed by Anton Koberger, the godfather of Albrecht Durer and the most successful German publisher of his day. This epic history divides human history into seven ages. It is a well documented incunabulum, one of the first to successfully combine illustrations and text. Written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel it appeared in 1493. This work by Schedel is an illustrated world history which is based on the Bible, which follows the story of human history related in the Bible and includes the histories of a number of important Western cities.
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