| | Year | | Event | Keyword |
| | 1494 | | Brant. Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff published, illustrated with | BRANT |
| | woodcuts, among them the famous Bookfool woodcut by Dürer (?) |
| | 1494 | | Narrenschiff, Ship of Fools, by Sebastian Brant, published by | NARRENSCHIFF |
| | Bergmann von Olpe, Basle, illustrated with 114 woodcuts. |
| | 1495 | | Manutius, Greek Grammar, first book published by Manutius | MANUTIUS |
| | 1495 | | Bembo. First Latin book from the Aldus' press was Pietro Bembo's | BEMBO |
| | dialog about Aetna (printed in a roman type that became the model |
| | for later French types, including Garamond's |
| | 1495 | | Griffo, Francesco, cut 'old face' roman type for Aldus Manutius | MANUTIUS |
| | 1495 | | Lufft, Hans, d.1584, printer-publisher of Wittenberg | LUFFT |
| | 1495 | | Bale, John (1563). Compiler of first bibliography in England | BALE |
| | 1495 | | Manutius, Edition of Aristotle in five volumes, first complete edition in | MANUTIUS |
| | Greek, printed/published between 1495-1498 |
| | 1497 | | Neudörfer, Johann, d. 1563, writing master of Nuremberg, his | NEUDÖRFER |
| | 'Fundament' was the first writing book to be published (collection of |
| | Fraktur scripts). |
| | 1497 | | Holbein, Hans, d.1543. | HOLBEIN |
| | 1498 | | Durer's Apocalypse series woodcuts | DÜRER |
| | 1498 | | Music Printing using movable type invented by Ottaviano Petrucci of | MUSIC PRINTING |
| | Venice |
| | 1498 | | Music Printing using movable type invented by Ottaviano Petrucci of | PETRUCCI |
| | Venice |
| | 1499 | | Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printed by Manutius | MANUTIUS |
| | 1499 | | Printing Press, oldest known reproduction of, in Dance of Death | PRINTING PRESS |
| | printed in Lyon by M.Huss |
| | 1500 | | Garamont, Claude, d.1561. Parisian type designer and punch cutter | GARAMONT |
| | 1501 | | Manutius. First time use of Francisco Griffo's *Italic* type by Manutius | GRIFFO |
| | 1501 | | Manutius. Virgil edition; first book by Aldus Manutius in octavo format | MANUTIUS |
| | 1501 | | Manutius. First time use of Francesco Griffo's *Italic* type by | MANUTIUS |
| | 1502 | | Egenolff, Christian, d.1555, established press and foundry in | EGENOLFF |
| | Frankfurt 1530 |
| | 1507 | | Chiaroscuro, first by Georg Lucas Cranach. | CRANACH |
| | 1507 | | Oporinus, Johannes, d.1568, scholar-printer of Basle, issued more | OPORINUS |
| | than 800 publications, including Koran and writings by Luther. Most |
| | important: Andreas Vesalius 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica' |
| | (anatomical study) |
| | 1507 | | Chiaroscuro, first by Georg Lucas Cranach. | CHIAROSCURO |
| | 1508 | | Jost de Negker, active in Antwerp 1508-1544, master of Burgkmair, | WOODCUT, COLOURED |
| | Cranach and Hans Baldung Grien. Believed to be the inventor of the |
| | colored woodcut. |
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