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A German broadside song sheet from about 1700, printed with no identifiable publisher and held by the University Library of Bern, meant for popular singing among ordinary readers. The page carries a black-letter title block announcing a song about a wild bear that two villages tried to catch, above a woodcut of a bear standing inside a shield-shaped frame with a diagonal band. A designer could take the bold blackletter hierarchy, the centred stacked title lettering, and the crude but confident woodcut bear as a model for heraldic-style emblem work.
