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Ein Hüpsch nüw Lied/ von dem Bentzenower im Beyerland wie es jm zu[o] Kopffstein ergangen ist/ [et]c

1559 · By Samuel Apiario · 1 picture

A 1559 German broadside ballad titled Ein Hüpsch nüw Lied, printed by Samuel Apiario and held by the ZB Zürich, telling of a Bentzenower in Bavaria and an event at Kopffstein for a general readership of song buyers. Its single woodcut title picture shows a walled town on a riverbank beside a tented encampment, with armed riders and a wagon in the foreground, rendered in dense black line with simple shading that suggests a clear model for compact, narrative cut illustration.

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