Bern. Burgerbibliothek, Mss.h.h.I.3

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Bern. Burgerbibliothek
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  • Mss.h.h.I.3
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  • 15th century
  • 1478-1483
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  • German
Title
  • Diebold Schilling, Amtliche Berner Chronik, vol. 3
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  • The Amtliche Berner Chronik (Official Chronicle of Bern) was commissioned by the city of Bern in 1474. About ten years later, Diebold Schilling was able to present the city council with this three-volume work, with its title pages in color, decorative initials, and more than six hundred large illustrations. The third, artistically richest volume contains Schilling’s own description of the Burgundian wars, together with that of the preceding period, up to the year 1480. It is closely related to the Grosse Burgunderchronik (Great Burgundian Chronicle) currently held by the Zentralbibliothek Zürich. The work remained in the possession of the Bern Chancellery for nearly three hundred years before the volumes were given to the City Library in 1762.
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