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Schönes Geschicht-Lied von dem Marggrafen von Backenweil, welcher im Krieg von den Türcken gefangen, und nach überstandenem grossem Ungemach, wunderbahrer Weise aus der Sclaverey befreyt worden ist : Sehr angenehm und merckwürdig zu lesen

1600 · [ohne Drucker] · 2 pictures

A German broadsheet ballad from about 1600, printed without a named printer, telling of a margrave captured by the Turks and freed after great hardship, meant for readers who enjoyed a moving and remarkable story. The two small woodcuts show a stylised flower with broad curling leaves and a cloaked man in a plumed hat walking with a cane, cut in bold black lines on rough paper that a designer could borrow for hand-cut, folk-style motifs.

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