Xylograph

An image or text printed from a woodblock.

An image or text printed from a woodblock. During the later fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, xylographs occasionally appeared in manuscripts and were often hand-coloured.

  • German:
    Xylograph; Blockbuch; Blockdruck
  • Portuguese:
    xilografia

Michelle Brown, Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts (Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Library, c1994).