Nuremberg Chronicle

Medium

Woodcut and letterpress in black, with brush and watercolor, pen and ink on ivory laid paper, in modern full alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on raised bands, with blind tooled lines in frame pattern, blind tooling and hand-lettered title on the spine, and hand-sewn linen headbands

Dimensions

47 × 33 × 7 cm (18 9/16 × 13 × 2 13/16 in.)

Classification

book

Department

Ryerson and Burnham Libraries Special Collections

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

204891

Rights

Public Domain