Die Amtliche Berner Chronik

Schilling, Diebold, the younger (ca. 1460-ca. 1520)

Item type:

manuscript, codex, scroll

Date of creation:

finished 1483

Technique / Medium:

black ink and opaque colour on parchment

Place of creation:

Bern (Schweiz)

Additional titles

Description

On the right: a drummer and a fifer (playing leftward, so-called "Swiss pair"). In the middle: a soldier with a horn hung on to his harquebus or arquebus (firearm).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fife [3945]
Side drum [2729]
End-blown horn [5177]

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Bloesch, Hans and Paul Hilber, eds. Diebold Schilling (Bern): Berner Chronik (1483), facsimile edition with index of pictures (Bern: Aare, 1943-45) vol. 2, 43.

Notes

Research Project Hochschule Luzern-Musik, Switzerland (Antonio Baldassarre, Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser, Dorothea Baumann)

RIdIM record id

4354