"ALbertus der gross genant auß schwaben land [...] der lere also gross gewest das nymant vber ine noch ime zegleichen was. [...] hat vil iar zu Cöln vn[d] zu Parys die heilligen schrift vnd die philozophey geleret [...]", (Schedel & Alt, 1496, fol. CCXIIIIr).
"Albertus Magnus, a native of [...] Swabia [...] no one excelled him or could be compared to him [...] spending many years in Cologne and Paris, teaching the Holy Scriptures and philosophy. [...]", (Hadavas, 2023, p. 591).
Albertus Magnus, ein Schwabe, dem niemand ebenbürtig war oder gleich kam, verbrachte viele Jahre in Köln und Paris, wo er die Heilige Schrift und Philosophie lehrte.
Literature sources and references (s. Tab. 1) for the Nuremberg Chronicle, fol. Ir to VIIr (NC_src_fol_1r_*, NC_src_fol_2r_6r_*) in Early New High German, ENHG (Schedel & Alt, 1493, 1496, res.) and from the English translation by Hadavas (2023). See given transcriptions and tables.
Especially since the Early New High German text is very difficult to understand compared to modern High German, as a profound knowledge of German (as a mother tongue) as well as knowledge of various dialects is required, a German translation is also provided.
Table 1. Pages containing first mentions ment of persons name (fol. Ir to VIr), sorted according to the corresponding reference pages ref of the following text.
Fol/Blat name nr
ment ref
1r 1r Euripides¹ 1
1r 1r Numenius of Apamea¹ 2
1r 1r Theodoret of Cyrus¹ 3
1r 1r Rabbi Simeon bar Yochai, Rashbi¹ 4
1r 1r Rabbi Eliazar ben Hurcanus¹ 5
1r 1r Abba Saul, The Tanna¹ 6
1r 1r Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai¹ 7
1r 1r Rabbi Nehunyah ben HaKanah¹ 8
1r 1r Rabbi Levi ben Gershom, Ralbag¹ 9
1r 1r Rabbi Saadia Gaon¹ 10
1r 1r Abraham Bar Ḥiyya, Savasorda¹ 11
5r 10 Enoch¹³ 12
1r 11r "Archa Noe"¹ 13
1r 14v Yoniton or Ionitus¹ 14
1r 24v Lisania, Jupiter I¹ 15
1r 29v Moses 16
1r 46v King Solomon the Wise 17
1r 61v Pythagoras of Samos² 18
3r 61v Ezekiel 19
1r 71r Anaxagoras 20
1r 73v Plato 21
1r 74v Hermippus of Smyrna¹ 22
4v 74v Plotinus² 23
2r 77r The Septuagint² 24
1r 77r Yosef ben Matityahu¹² 25
2r 78r Aristotle 26
2r 78r Epicurus 27
1r 85r Philo of Alexandria²³ 28
4r 89r Marcus Tullius Cicero 29
4r 92v Quintus Horatius Flaccus 30
2r 93v Publius Ovidius Naso 31
1r 94r Strabo 32
1r 97r Philo of Alexandria³ 33
6r 107r Saint Matthew the Evangelist 34
1r 108r Saint Luke the Evangelist 35
6r 109v Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite⁴ 36
1r 117v Origen of Alexandria 37
1r 133r Saint Basil the Great 38
1r 134v Saint Ambrose of Milan 39
1r 134v Apollinarius of Laodicea 40
1r 135r Saint Jerome 41
1r 135r Saint Chrysostom of Constantinople 42
1r 135v Saint Didymus the Blind 43
1r 136r Saint Augustinus of Hippo 44
1r 140v Saint Remigius of Reims 45
1r 141v Saint Gennadius I of Constantinople 46
6r 148r Saint Gregory the Great 47
6r 151v Saint Isidore of Seville 48
1r 158v Saint Bede the Venerable 49
1r 161v Saint Giles the Hermit 50
1r 192v Isaac Israeli ben Solomon 51
1r 214r Saint Albert the Great 52
¹) Mentioned from the Heptaplus (Mirandola & Mirandola, 1601, p. 1 f.).
²) Anachronistic.
³) Double mention.
⁴) Dionysius the Areopagite.
The main sources for the preface up to the fall of man (fol. Ir to VIIr) are the Heptaplus and Oratio de hominis dignitate (Mirandola & Mirandola, 1601, p. 1 ff., p. 207 ff., res.), Genesis, the first book of Moses (Jiménez de Cisneros, 1517, fol. a ff.), the Supplementum Chronicarum (Foresti, 1492, fol. a2r ff.), the Metamorphoses of Ovid (1515, fol. 1r), De Legibus (Cicero & Cicero, 1496, p. aaiii), the Historia Naturalis (Plinius Secundus, 1250, fol. 22r; c.f. De Beauvais, 1964), De Caelesti Hierarchia (Dionysius, 1350) and the Chronica Majora (De Seville, 1802, p. 285).
See further Genealogiae deorum gentilium (Boccaccio, 1360), Plato's Timaeus (Plato, 1588, p. 456 ff.), Aristotle's Metaphsics (Aristoteles & Theophrastus, 1608), the Odes of Horace (1868), the Enneads of Plotinus (1580), Homiliae in Evangelia of Gregory the Great (Étaix, 1999) and The Gospel of Matthew (Jiménez de Cisneros, 1517).
On original sources see Diels (1906), Janko (2002) and Benaissa et al. (2025).
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Benaissa, A., Henry, W. B., & et al., ed. (2025). The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. LXXXVIII. Graeco-Roman Memoirs. London: Egypt Exploration Society. https://oxyrhynchus.web.ox.ac.uk/publications
Boccaccio, G. (1360). Genealogiae deorum gentilium libri XV. Pal. lat. 938. Vatican: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Pal.lat.938
Cicero, M. T., & Cicero, Q. (1496). M.T. Ciceronis de Natura Deorum Libri Tres ... Impræssum Venetiis: per Symonem Papiensem dictum Biuilaqua. https://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-89116
De Beauvais, V. (1964). Speculum maius. Graz1: Akad. Druck- u. Verl.-Anst. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-20612
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Diels, H. (1906). Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker: Griechisch und Deutsch. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. https://archive.org/details/diefragmentederv01diel
Dionysius. (1350). De Caelesti Hierarchia. MS Gr 2. Oxford, Magdalen College: Oxford Digital Library. https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/ee19a692-5066-4c84-95db-d93c4fc82b97/
Étaix, R. (1999). Gregorius Magnus, Homiliae in Evangelia. Corpus Christianorum Series Latina. Vol. 141. Turnhout: Brepols. https://books.google.com/books?id=r4ERnwEACAAJ
Foresti, G. F. (1492). Supplementum Chronicarum. Novariensis: Bernardinus Rizus. https://books.google.com/books?id=ei9TruMbYCkC&printsec=frontcover
Hadavas, K. (2023). First English edition of the Nuremberg chronicle : being the Liber chronicarum of Dr. Hartmann Schedel. Edited by Hadavas, K. UW–Madison TEI edition. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries. https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/3SXNV3NHBQLFQ8J
Horace. (1868). Q. Horatii Flacci Opera Omnia. Oxoni et Londini: J. Parker et Soc. https://google.cat/books?id=A28VAAAAYAAJ
Janko, R. (2002). The Derveni Papyrus: An Interim Text. Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, 141, 1–62. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20191519
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Schedel, H., & Alt, G. (tr.). (1493). Buch der Chroniken und geschichten mit figure und pildnüssen von anbegin der welt bis auf diese unsere Zeit. Nuremberge: Antonius Koberger. https://web.archive.org/web/20161003154613
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Footnotes
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c.f. fol. CCLXXVv to CCLXXVIIr (
NC_src_fol_275v_277r_*). ↩