Ein Hüpsch Alt Lied/ vom Bruder Clausen von Underwalden/ wie er ein Lobliche Eydgnoschafft vermanet/ warnet vnd so in trewen gerathen hat/ [et]c

1618 · Getruckt bey Johann Schröter · 1 picture

A 1618 German broadside song sheet printed by Johann Schröter, presumably for popular audiences in the Swiss Confederation, telling the old tale of Brother Klaus of Unterwalden urging the Swiss league to keep faith. The title block is set in blackletter type inside decorative borders, with a woodcut of a bearded hermit in a long habit holding a rosary beside it; a designer could take the dense blackletter display and the framed woodcut-within-border layout as a model for historical title pages.

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