Robert Fabyan and the Nuremberg Chronicle

This article identifies one of Robert Fabyan's source books, his copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle, which contains extensive notes and annotations in his hand. The volume is among the collections at Guildhall Library, London. The marginal notes are of particular interest, not only for the light they shed on Fabyan's working practice, but also because the similarities with the hands of the extant manuscripts of the latter part of the Great Chronicle of London, and The Newe Cronycles of England and Fraunce (Fabyan's Chronicle), demonstrate Fabyan's involvement in each work. This attribution has been doubted for some time. Fabyan also added interesting ownership and purchase information to the Nuremberg Chronicle.