Chapter 5

5–1. French watermark designs

5–2. Playing cards, part of an uncut sheet of woodblock prints

5–3. Woodblock print of Saint Christopher

5–4. Block print of the Annunciation

5–5. Block-book page from The Story of the Blessed Virgin

5–6. Letter K from a grotesque alphabet

5–7. Pages from an ars moriendi

5–8. Pages from a biblia pauperum

5–9. Pages from Ars Memorandi per Figuras Evangelistarum (Book of Notable Religious Figures),

5–10. These early-nineteenth-century engravings illustrate Gutenberg’s system for casting type.

5–11. Jost Amman, woodcut illustrations for Ständebuch (Book of Trades)

5–12. Johann Gutenberg, thirty-one-line letters of indulgence

5–13. Handwritten letter of indulgence

5–14. Johann Gutenberg, pages 146 and 147 from the Gutenberg Bible

5–15. Johann Gutenberg, page 266 from the Gutenberg Bible

5–16. Fust and Schoeffer, page detail from a Psalter in Latin

5–17. Fust and Schoeffer, colophon and trademark from a Psalter in Latin

5–18. Jan Fust and Peter Schoeffer, page from Rationale Divinorum Officiorum

5–19. Master of the Playing Cards, The Three of Birds