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Genffischer auffruhr/ So sich am samstag zu Nacht den Eylfften December Anno 1602. durch den Hertzogen von Saphoy vnuersehenlichen erhebt ... : Jn der Melodey wie die Sempacher Schlacht zu singen

1602 · [ohne Drucker] · 2 pictures

A 1603 German broadside ballad printed without a named printer, set to the tune of the Sempach battle song, recounting the Savoyard attempt on Geneva in December 1602 for popular readers. Its two pictures are a dense knotted interlace ornament used as a border or headpiece and a crowded woodcut of armed men fighting under a burst of rays beneath a title block, which together suggest strong contrast between ornament and battle scene for a designer.

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