The Eidgenössische Chronik by Werner Schodoler (1490-1541) is the
last of the illustrated Swiss chronicles of the late Middle Ages.
It was written on private initiative between 1510 and 1535 and took
as its primary models the Official Bernese Chronicle - Amtliche
Berner Chronik - by Diebold Schilling and the Chronicle - Kronica -
by Petermann Etterlin. This volume, the second of the three volumes
of the chronicle, consists primarily of an account of the Old
Zurich War and is illustrated with 130 colored pen sketches. Today
the three volumes are held in different libraries: the first volume
is in the Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek in Überlingen, the second in
the City Archive in Bremgarten, and the third in the Cantonal
Library of Aargau.
