The artist and bookbinder known only by his initials, the Master H. B., was active in Breslau, now part of Poland, in the early sixteenth century. The Master H.B. was part of the circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder, a German painter, printmaker, and engraver. Cranach himself was closely associated the Protestant Reformation, and designed bibles for Martin Luther. Master H.B. is known only through hi
