Diebold Schilling, Amtliche Berner Chronik, vol. 3
A 1478 illuminated manuscript, the third volume of the official Bernese chronicle by Diebold Schilling, produced in Bern for the city's civic record. Its four pages show hand-coloured miniatures of armoured knights, banners, and walled towns, each framed above a block of German manuscript text. A designer could take their flat colour, bold heraldic banners, and simple architectural silhouettes as a model for medieval-style pictorial composition.
