Bern Chronicle
The Berner Chronik (also Berner Schilling or Official Chronicle ) is a chronicle of the Burgundian Wars written by Diebold Schilling the Elder in the tradition of the Swiss illustrated chronicles . It was commissioned on January 31, 1474 by the mayor Adrian I. von Bubenberg and the city council of Bern as a report from the beginning of the foundation of the city of Bern , up to and including the day . Using the city chronicle of Konrad Justinger written in 1420 and the work of Hans Fründ and Bendicht Tschachtlan , Schilling wrote the official chronicle of the city of Bern until 1483. The first two volumes cover the period from the founding of Bern to 1468, the third is dedicated to the Burgundian period. They are kept in the Bern Burger Library. The illustrated draft for the third volume of the Official Schilling Chronicle is known as the Great Burgundy Chronicle . It is kept in the Zurich Central Library. The Spiezer Chronik was created following the Official Chronicle and contains an abbreviated text version. Berner and Spiezer Schilling together contain well over a thousand illustrations.
Gustav Tobler (1855–1921) published the Bern Chronicle in 1901 on behalf of the Historical Society of the Canton of Bern .
literature
- Carl Pfaff , The World of Swiss Picture Chronicles , 1991.
- Carl Gerhard Baumann: About the origin of the oldest Swiss illustrated chronicles (1468–1485) ; Writings from the Bern Citizens' Library; Bern 1971.
- Ernst Walder: Questioned and corrected by councilors and burgers. Diebold Schilling's three editorial offices of the Bern Chronicle of the Burgundian Wars. In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, 48 (1986), pp. 87–117.
- Walter Muschg: The Swiss illustrated chronicles of the 15./16. Century ; Atlantis Verlag, Zurich 1941.
Web links
- Digitized from volume 1
- Digitized from volume 2
- Digitized from volume 3
- Edition 1901
- Facsimile of the Great Burgundy Chronicle
- Facsimile of the Spiezer Chronicle