Worlds of learning. The library and world chronicle of the Nuremberg physician Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514). Edited by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Schedel's library, mostly preserved at the Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek, is the most extensive and multifaceted surviving private library of a fifteenth-century German collector. According to Schedel's original manuscript catalogue, the library consisted of 623 works in 645 volumes of which about 190 works were on medicine. With numerous fine color plates. Schedel also owned a collection of prints and drawings, described and illustrated in Die Graphiksammulung des Humanisten Hartmann Schedel by Béatrice Hernad (Munich, 1990).