1548 Folio Leaf with 5 Woodcuts From The Stumpf Chronicle - Execution Scene & Battle of Buh

Stumpf Chronicle: Zurich, 1548.

Large folio leaf with 5 woodcuts from the exceedingly scarce first edition of The Stumpf Chronicle printed by Johannes Stumpf in Zurich in 1548. This was one of the greatest illustrated works of the early to mid 16th century.

Woodcuts by Heinrich Vogtherr "The Elder" (1490-1556), an artist, printer, poet and medical author of the Reformation period. Small portraits by Hans Asper. Later hand color to 4 woodcuts, 1 uncolored.

King Arnulf of Carinthia invades Italy at the head of an East Frankish expeditionary army. He storms Rome (the Leonine City), and has himself crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Formosus at St. Peter's. Arnulf sets out to establish his authority in Spoleto, but suffers a stroke; he is forced to call off the campaign, and returns to Bavaria with many of his men executed.

Battle of Southern Buh: Bulgarian forces under Simeon I (the Great) defeat the Magyars, near the banks of the Southern Buh river (modern Ukraine). The Magyars withdraw from Bulgaria, and are forced to migrate to new pastures. Led by çrp‡d, they settle in the Carpathian Basin (modern Hungary).

Small portraits of Ludvicus Balbus III, Berengarius and Conrad.

Condition: As shown, on paper in good condition with minor age toning and spotting to outer margins. 37.3 x 23.2 cm.