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SCHEDEL, Hartmann. Liber Cronicarum, Nürnberg, Anton Koberg/Schreyer & Sebastian Kammermeister, 1493.

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The German humanist and physician Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) was born and died in Nuremberg. He studied Medicine in Padua and other subjects in…

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BREYDENBACH, Bernhard von. Reise ins Heilige Land, E. Reuwich, Mainz 1486.

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The nobleman Bernard von Breydenbach (1454-1497) was probably born in Strasbourg. He qualified as Doctor of Laws and was elected to high ecclesiastic…

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PARDOE, Julia. The Beauties of the Bosphorus by Miss Pardoe, from drawings by William H. Bartlett. London, Virtue, 1839.

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The British poetess, writer and traveller Miss Julia Pardoe (1806-1862) visited Constantinople with her father, Major Thomas Pardoe and resided there…

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