Identification title(s): antipope christopher. Christoferus (title on object). Liber chronicarum (series title). Object type: picture book illustration album page object number: rp-p-2016-49-64-4. Inscriptions / brands: inscription, top left, written with pen: '90'. Description: a calyx with a pope. He wears a tiara and has an open book and a staff with a double cross in his hands. The performance is part of the succession of popes in the liber chronicarum. The text identifies the man as antipope christopher. 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 woodcut. Material: paper technique: letterpress / woodcut / pasting. Dimensions: print: h 74 mm × w 57 mm explanation the woodcut is repeatedly 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 173v. Subject: what: pope. Who: christopher (anti-pope). Acquisition: unknown 1874. Date: 1493.
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