A leaf describing some of the Saints from the Middle Ages from Hartmann Schedel’s ‘Nuremberg Chronicle’ published in Nuremberg in 1493. The illustrations in order are of Saint Dominic, Saint Francis and finally an illustration of the natural disasters the occurred one year. The verso features the year 1214 AD and illustrations of Honorius III, Pope Gregory IX and Celestine IV. The book was published at the height of the Renaissance. Schedel was a physician and editor of the text which is a year-by-year account of notable events in world history from the creation down to the year of publication, with special emphasis on ominous and portentous events including the invention of printing. This woodcut along with the nearly 1800 others are the work of Michael Wohlgemut (1434–1519) and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (1460–1494). Wohlgemut is best known to have been the early tutor to Albrecht Durer who was in his workshop at the time of this works production and is generally believed to have contributed to it. The work was printed by Anton Koberger. At the time it was the most profusely illustrated book ever published. This example is from the first edition printed in July 1493 with Latin text, a later issue with German text was published in December of the same year.