One of the best-documented early printed books and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations - some of which Albrecht Durer may have participated in designing - with text, is now on display in Bulgaria.

Local GreenCat Gallery is celebrating its fifth anniversary with an exhibition of the Nuremberg Chronicle at the Boutique Hotel Crystal Palace until February 28 2010.

The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated world history, structured to follow human history in relation to the Bible, which appeared in July 1493 in Nuremberg. Its Latin text was written by Harmann Schedel, a  German physician, humanist and historian, with a German translation by Georg Alt.

The unprecedented 1809 woodcut illustrations were produced by the workshop of Michael Wolgemut, one of Nuremberg's leading artists, where Durer was an apprentice in the years preceding the publication of the Chronicle, when the production of the illustrations was first commissioned to Wolgemut's workshop.

The production of the Nuremberg Chronicle was financed by Nuremberg merchants Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister.

The exhibition in Sofia will include only part of the Chronicles, notably section CXLIII (143), which includes nine woodcuts by Wolgemut.

Among the nine woodcuts are some of the earliest representations of the mythical king Arthur as well as King Clovis, the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one ruler, and a portrait of emperor Justinian.

The exhibition in Sofia will continue until February 28 2010 at the Boutique Hotel Crystal Palace on 14 Shipka street. Entrance is free.