Augsburg Book of Miracles

[4] The manuscript itself was probably produced between 1545 and 1552 (some of the text is lifted from the Luther Bible of 1545;[2] the final image before those from the New Testament Book of Revelation features a hailstorm on the town of Dordrecht in the Netherlands which occurred in 1552[5]).

In general respects the images follow contemporary manuscripts, in particular Conrad Lycosthenes's Chronicle of Prodigies and Portents (1557) and the Histoires Prodigieuses by Pierre Boaistuau (1560),[2] and designs by contemporary painters and printmakers, including Hans Sebald Beham, Hans Holbein the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Albrecht Dürer.

[8] The captions describe and/or comment on the images and, where appropriate, cite Biblical sources (from the Luther Bible of 1545) or the place and date of the event depicted.

It is written in rough chronological order, from the Old Testament through various phenomena and portents from Antiquity up to the time of production and finishing with the Book of Revelation.

The first section of the book, covering Folios 1 to 15, begins with miracles indicative of God's will before switching to events from the history of the Jews as described in the Old Testament.

Front cover of the first edition Taschen publication of the Augsburg Book of Miracles (published 2013). The image shows Folio 90, the Tiber River monster, reputedly washed up after a flood of 1496.
Contemporary sources for Folio 90: left, The Papal Ass of Rome (1523) by Lucas Cranach the Elder ; right, Roma caput mundi (c. 1496–1500) by Wenzel von Olmüz.