Ein schöns Lied von dem edlen Hiltebrand
A 1590 German song-sheet printed in Augsburg by Michael Manger, telling the ballad of the noble Hiltebrand for popular audiences who bought it to sing. The woodcut border of this one picture shows a mounted knight in combat beside a group of people in period dress on the left, hand-coloured in strong reds, greens and yellows. A designer could take from it the compact narrative framing of a single scene within a decorative woodcut border, with dense blackletter type set below.
