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Gar eyn alt schon lied von der loblichen statt Fryburg/ in Yechtlanndt/ wider den hertzog Karle von burgund genant : Sings in der wyß/ wie wol ich bin eyn alter Gryß

Weber, Veit · 1536 · [Lux Schauber] · 2 pictures

A 1536 German song sheet by Veit Weber praising the city of Freiburg in the Breisgau against Duke Charles of Burgundy, printed by Lux Schauber and held by the University Library of Bern, written for a popular audience to be sung to an existing tune. The pictures are small crude woodcuts: one shows a pair of stylised shoulder-plate or armour pieces with hatched edges, and the other a standing armoured soldier with a long halberd or pike set within a plain rectangular border, offering a designer bold, simple woodcut figures and hatched linework suited to period-style graphics.

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