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1656 · [Verlag nicht ermittelbar] · 2 pictures

A 1656 German broadside song titled as a sorrowful lament by a bear over a lost battle, published by an unidentified printer and held by the University Library Bern, aimed at readers who sang it to a known tune. The two pictures are small crude woodcuts: a bear shown in profile beside a rock, and a dense symmetrical heart-shaped ornament of scrolling foliage, useful to a designer for animal-satire motifs or early modern decorative borders.

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