Identification title(s): ahimelech. Achimilech (title on object). Liber chronicarum (series title). Object type: picture book illustration album page object number: rp-p-2016-49-23-8. Inscriptions / brands: inscription, top right, written with pen: '230'. Description: a flower chalice with a man in priestly attire, facing forward. The text identifies him as ahimelech, high priest. The performance is part of the sequence of priests in the liber chronicarum. The print is part of an album. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: michel wolgemut (studio of), printmaker: wilhelm pleydenwurff (studio of). Place of manufacture: nuremberg. Dating: 1493. Physical features: woodcut pasted on album page; letterpress text; verso with letterpress text. Material: paper technique: letterpress / woodcut / pasting. Dimensions: print: h 65 mm × w 56 mm explanation the woodcut is used as a book illustration in the liber chronicarum (or nuremberg chronicle) by hartmann schedel, published in latin and german in 1493. See the latin edition, folio 41v. Subject: what: persons from the old testament (not in biblical context, nor occurring in legendary/historical extensions included in division 71), high priest ~ hierarchy of priests. Acquisition: unknown 1874. Date: 1493.
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