Diebold Schilling, Amtliche Berner Chronik, vol. 1
Diebold Schilling's Amtliche Berner Chronik, volume 1, was written and illustrated in 1478 in Bern, Switzerland, as an official civic history of the city for its own council and citizens. Its painted scenes show medieval siege and battle action: walled towns, armoured troops with pikes and crossbows, cannons, and horsemen under heraldic banners. A designer could take from them the compact layout of framed scenes beside dense text columns, and the bold, flat colour blocks of green hills, red banners and grey stone.
