Peoples of the World
Dublin Core
Title
Peoples of the World
Subject
Printing -- Germany -- Nuremberg -- History -- Origin and Antecedents.
Description
The fourteen images on this folio depict the monstrous races believed to populate the margins of the world. For each image, there is a corresponding block of text describing the visual qualities of the humanoid creature.
Left column, top to bottom: Dog Head (Cynocephali), One Eye (Cyclops), Headless (Blemmya), Reverse Feet, Androgyn, Umbrella Foot (Sciopod), Straw Man
Right column, top to bottom: Bo Nose, Big Mouth, Large Ears (Sausage-eared Panotii), Devil Man, Stag Hunter, Hoof Man, Pygmy
Although we know today that these humanoid creatures are fictional, at the time of the manuscript’s creation, it was believed that the monstrous images truly depicted the people of the world.
Left column, top to bottom: Dog Head (Cynocephali), One Eye (Cyclops), Headless (Blemmya), Reverse Feet, Androgyn, Umbrella Foot (Sciopod), Straw Man
Right column, top to bottom: Bo Nose, Big Mouth, Large Ears (Sausage-eared Panotii), Devil Man, Stag Hunter, Hoof Man, Pygmy
Although we know today that these humanoid creatures are fictional, at the time of the manuscript’s creation, it was believed that the monstrous images truly depicted the people of the world.
Creator
Hartmann Schedel
Source
The Nuremberg Chronicle: Art, Artifact and the End of the World by Sharday C. Mosurinjohn and Richard S. Ascough; Morse Library (https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=nur;cc=nur;rgn=div2;view=text;idno=nur.001.0004;node=nur.001.0004%3A4.4)
Date
1493
Contributor
Amy Zavecz
Language
Latin
Files
Citation
Hartmann Schedel, “Peoples of the World,” Drew University Library Special Collections, accessed April 28, 2024, http://omeka.drew.edu/items/show/724.