Die Schlacht vor Sempach : So beschen im 1386. Jar/ vff Sanct Cirillen tag/ in Lucerner biet gelägen
A 1580 German broadside-style book titled Die Schlacht vor Sempach, a verse account of the 1386 battle, written by Hans Halbsuter and probably printed by Samuel Apiarius, held by UB Bern. The single picture is a woodcut title page showing a lone armed soldier in a plumed hat and slashed doublet standing in a landscape with a small town and a tree beside him, framed by blackletter type with a boxed image panel. A designer could take from it the compact hierarchy of blackletter headline above a framed woodcut, and the bold, flat, hatched figure drawing typical of sixteenth-century German print.
