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Heraldry -- Pictorial works.

 Subject
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Printed leaf collection

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113554590]
Identifier: 8416
Scope and content Individual leaves from early printed books: a hand-colored leaf (leaf [91]) from Hartmann Schedel's Liber chronicarum, 1493 (known as the Nuremberg chronicle), including a woodcut depicting the city of Toulouse, France; and a hand-colored leaf (leaf [97]) from the book Das Concilium geschehen zu Constanz, by Ulrich von Richental (also spelled Richenthal), 1483, containing woodcuts depicting coats of arms claimed to be "the three oldest heraldic devices in the world" ("die ersten drey Wappen...
Dates: 1483-1493.