Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505

In 1505, Martin Löffelholz, a Nuremberg knight and patrician, created an illustrated technical manual documenting innovative tools and mechanical devices including drills, workbenches, crossbows, and a self-rocking mercury-filled cradle. The 154-page codex, now held in Kraków and fully digitized, has remained untranscribed and unread in its entirety for over 500 years until this recent scholarly project began systematically analyzing and presenting each page with facsimiles, transcriptions, translations, and interpretations.