Silbereisen: Chronicon Helvetiae, Part III
A sixteenth-century Swiss illustrated chronicle, the third part of Silbereisen's Chronicon Helvetiae, dated 1572, now held in the e-codices virtual manuscript library. Its pictures are hand-painted in gouache and ink on paper, showing a gold-tinted wheeled device with a blue-grey barrel mounted on a curved carriage, repeated across four views with a small heraldic shield. A designer might take from them the flat, tinted manuscript style, the sparse spoked-wheel forms, and the simple heraldic shield motif.
