Kurtzweiliges Vilmerger-Schlacht-Lied : Welche geschehen den 24. Jenner Deß 1656. Jahrs. Componiert durch Einen, der sich in währender Schlacht ritterlich gehalten
A 1656 German broadside song about a battle at Vilmergen, printed without a named printer and issued for ballad-singing readers in the Swiss-German region. The single picture is a small woodcut vignette inside a rope-bordered circle, showing a figure in a cap riding a winged bird with spread wings and a long tail above a rocky base. A designer might take from it the compact emblem format, the rope-edge circular frame, and the rough, energetic line of early German popular print.
