UNKNOWN MASTER, German
(active c. 1440)

Calendar

c. 1440
Woodcut
British Museum, London

In the mid-fifteenth century, mass-produced block-books, pages combining text and pictures, were already common for such items as calendars, books of hours and playing cards. However, it was the composition of whole books in moveable type, the laborious putting together of separate letters, that was revolutionary.

The present calendar was printed as a while-page woodcut.