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 second
volume contains accounts of events from the years 1421 through
1466, based for the most part on Benedicht Tschachtlan’s edition
of Fründ's work. 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.
