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Ein Histori auss der Römer Chronica, zu einem Lied gemacht : und ist in des Römers Gesangs weyss, oder im langen Müglings Thon

[Michael Manger] · 1 picture

A 16th-century German songsheet-style broadside titled after a Roman chronicle tale, printed for singing to a known melody, with a woodcut of a town scene above the text. The woodcut shows a crowd of townsfolk in long coats and caps beside half-timbered buildings, with a figure reaching toward a seated man at the left edge. A designer could take from it the crowded, angular woodcut hatching and the compact framing of a title block over a single scene.

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