Chronographia o reportorio de tiempos, el mas copioso y precisso, : que hasta ahora ha solido a luz.
Chronographia is a 1584 Spanish chronology handbook by Jerónimo de Chaves, printed in Seville at the house of Fernando Díaz for Faustino de Magariño, meant for readers who needed calendars and time reckoning. Its pictures are small crude woodcuts of an ouroboros serpent, a zodiac-style beast with stars, a dark disc, and a half-shaded circle representing celestial bodies and eclipses. A designer might take bold, simple woodcut silhouettes and star-dotted symbols for astronomical or cyclical motifs.
