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- The cover of the Nuremburg Chronicle.
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- Page number CXLII.
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- A picture showing some fibers that were used to make the paper.
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- A page was ripped, so a newer paper of similar thickness and texture was added to fix the page.
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- It’s hard to tell, but you can see the thread from stab stitching.
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- A picture of the spine of the cover.
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- Two full page pictures.
To learn more about bibliography, I went back to our special collections library and looked at the Nuremburg Chronicle. The binding on the Chronicle is still bound and looks like it’s the original leather binding. There is some wear on the edges and corners, but overall it is in pretty good condition. I couldn’t see any chain lines so I think the paper was woven. All of the pages are open and trimmed with one inch margins. There are no watermarks that I could see, but you can see evidence of the paper being made by fabric as you can see some fibers in the pages. The paper is mostly smooth with a few rough spots on all open pages.
As far as book formatting goes, the book was printed on folio sized paper and folded in half to be bound. There are about 300 pages in the books so that would make the number of sheets needed to print the Chronicle 150 sheets.