Ein hüpsch nüw Lied/ von der Schlacht der dry Growen Bündten
A German-language broadside ballad printed in Bern in 1558 by Samuel Apiarius, held by the ZB Zürich, celebrating a Swiss battle for a popular audience of readers of street songs. The single woodcut shows a fully armed soldier with a plumed helmet, a long pike and a sword in a framed panel above the title, with a rough hatched landscape behind him. A designer could take bold, simple black-line figure construction and the way a framed image sits under a heavy blackletter headline.
