Ein Hüpsch Lied, von nüwer Zytung vß Franckrych etc : Jn der wyß, Zum ersten wend wir loben, Maria die reyne meyd
A 1563 German-language song sheet printed in Basel or Bern-area type by Samuel Apiarius, a printer, for a general readership who sang and read ballads. Its single woodcut shows a crowned, bearded figure in a long patterned robe holding a cross-topped sceptre, set in a rectangle beneath a black-letter title block; a designer could draw on its compact, centred, text-over-image layout and its dense blackletter typography.
