From Flickr: “Woodcut illustration in Schedel, Hartmann: Liber chronicarum” by University of Glasgow Library

Schedel, Hartmann: Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. Page of text (CCLXXXVIIIIr) describing the British isles and incorporating a woodcut illustration of England. Sp Coll Hunterian Bv.1.12.

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt