The Nuremberg Chronicle
[Chronicon Nurembergense]
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493
University of Manitoba, Dysart 21

This monumental history was one of the turning points in the development of the book, demonstrating that illustration could produce effects as striking as illumination. It uses eighteen-hundred woodcut prints-some covering a full opening-to illustrate the history of the world from creation to the fifteenth century. It was written by Harmann Schedel and printed by Anton Koberger, one of the most esteemed and successful printers of Europe. The woodcuts were designed by Michael Wolgemut (master of Dürer) and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, and represent saints, martyrs, popes, emperors and kings, biblical events, and cities.