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Die Schlacht vor Sempach : so beschehen im 1386. Jar, uff Sanct Cirillen Tag, in Lucerner Biet gelägen

Halbsuter, Hans · 1580 · [Samuel Apiarius?] · 1 picture

A 1580 German broadside-style ballad pamphlet by Hans Halbsuter, probably printed by Samuel Apiarius, recounting the 1386 Battle of Sempach for a popular Swiss readership. The single woodcut on the title page shows a armoured soldier in a feathered hat holding a red-and-white banner on a pole, drawn in bold outlines with flat hand-coloured orange and red, a useful model for bold narrative folk imagery.

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