The Liber Chronicarum, or better known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, written by Hartmann Schedle, is one of the most important German printed books of the 15th century. This work is significant because it is the most illustrated book of the 15th century. The work presents a biblical recount of human history using illustrations accompanied with text. The text throughout the work is written in Latin to further reinforce the religious significance of each passage. The Codex was printed on paper with the binding created with a Mottled brown calf over pasteboards with the manuscript title Registrum Chronicar in black ink on the front-edge and title date of the printing gilt on a red morocco spine label. The illustrations in the work were created from the method of woodblock printing. The wood block prints in the work originated from the workshop of…show more content… The woodblock printing method used in the Nuremberg Chronicle is known as chiaroscuro woodcuts. Th chiaroscuro method was created in 1508 in Germany, the method used two or more different colored blocks to print an image. This printing style used a “line block” with “tone blocks”, the “line block” created lines for the “tone blocks” to print different colors in the lined-out area. Woodblock printing helped speed up creating multiple copies of an illustrated codex. This process was expedited in that the artist would only need to etch their illustrations into a woodblock once, rather than having to replicate their work by hand in each individual copy. The first step of the printing process starts with the sketch of a design, sketches of texts are usually reversed as the printed image will be the reverse of what is on the block. Once an image is sketched out the next step is to carve out the design. After carving out the design ink is rolled on to the newly made block. After the woodblock is covered in ink, it is then pressed down onto
