Ein hüpsch nüw Lied und ware Gschicht : wie fry der Bär den Krieg hat gricht, der zwischen Genff und Safoy was, ir Bischoff hat gebrittlott das ...
A 1536 German-language ballad printed in Bern-area type by Matthias Apiarius, attributed to Niklaus Schorr, telling in verse the story of a bear mediating a war between Geneva and Savoy for a popular readership. The first picture is a decorative woodcut cartouche with scrolling foliage and a printed block of verse above it, which suggests ornamental borders and blackletter layout. The second shows two bears in dark woodcut outline, one holding a sword, a clear model for animal caricature and heraldic-style figures in ink.
