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 first
volume contains the early history of Bern from the founding of the
city until the year 1421, based on the older chronicle by Konrad
Justinger, following the version by Bendicht Tschachtlan. 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.
