Diebold Schilling, Amtliche Berner Chronik, vol 2
This is a late fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript, the second volume of the official Bernese chronicle written and illustrated by Diebold Schilling in 1478 for the city of Bern, Switzerland, now held by a Swiss digital library. Its painted pages show armoured foot soldiers with long pikes and halberds advancing across green fields and riverbanks past walled towns, with red and white banners, sharply outlined figures, and flat patches of bright colour that suggest a medieval woodcut or stained-glass palette for historical and military scenes.
