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This woodcut was published in Liber Chronicarum, one of the best-known printed books of the era. It shows the Holy Roman emperor among the four temporal (Bohemia, Palatinate, Saxony, and Brandenburg) and three spiritual (Mainz, Cologne, and Trier) royal electors; below them are the princes, bishops, abbots, nobles, and envoys of the Imperial cities.

The Holy Roman Emperor and the Imperial Electors (1493)

  • Hartmut Schedel

Source

Source: Bartholomäus Käppeler. The emperor and the seven electors of the Holy Roman Empire. From Hartmann Schedel's “Liber Chronicarum” with woodcuts after drawings by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, printed by Anton Koburger. Nuremberg 1493. Original: Gutenberg Museum, Mainz.
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