Spiezer Chronicle
The Spiezer Chronik or Spiezer Schilling was written by Diebold Schilling the Elder in 1484/85 . The chronicle is regarded as the artistic highlight of Schilling's work. With it the tradition of the Bernese Chronistik of the 15th century ends.
The Spiezer Chronik was commissioned by the old Bernese mayor Rudolf von Erlach . When Diebold Schilling presented the Bernese council with his three-volume Official Bern Chronicle at Christmas 1483, the councilor may well have wanted to own such a work. A little later, Schilling was commissioned to write a chronicle and to make the drawings himself. Diebold Schilling maintained good contact with the von Erlach family; Schilling's wife Katharina was the godmother of one of Rudolf's sons.
In the introduction, Schilling explains that he is writing the book "to praise pious and sunderbed eren of the aforementioned young Ruodolfs, ouch siner vorernn [...] ", whose deeds he then particularly emphasized here and there. The pictures were also specially tailored to the client. The type and the pen drawings glazed in different colors differ greatly from the representation in earlier chronicles.
The text is based on various templates by Konrad Justinger and Benedikt Tschachtlan and reports in 344 pictures on 808 pages from the beginnings in 1152 with interruptions up to 1465. Various small abbreviations at the end of the chronicle and the uncertain and coarse script suggest admitted that the sick and weakened Schilling wanted to finish his work on time.
The Spiez Chronicle was Schilling's last work: He died in 1486. The work was kept in the Spiez Castle Library until 1875 ; today it is in the Bern Burger Library .
A facsimile edition of the Spiezer Chronik was published in a limited edition of 980 numbered copies.
literature
- Walter Muschg : The Swiss illustrated chronicles of the 15./16. Century. Atlantis Verlag, Zurich 1941.
- Carl Gerhard Baumann: About the creation of the oldest Swiss illustrated chronicles (1468–1485) with special consideration of the illustrations in Diebold Schilling's “Grosser Burgunderchronik” in Zurich. Verlag der Burgerbibliothek, Bern 1971 (= publications of the Berner Burgerbibliothek).
- Ernst Walder: "Questioned and corrected by councilors and burgers." Diebold Schilling's three editorial offices of the Bern Chronicle of the Burgundian Wars. In: Bern journal for history and local history. 48: 87-117 (1986). doi : 10.5169 / seals-246377
- Hans Haeberli (Ed.): Switzerland in the Middle Ages in Diebold Schilling's Spiezer Chronicle. Study edition for the facsimile edition of the manuscript Mss. Hist. Helv. I. 16 of the Citizens' Library in Bern. Facsimile publishing house, Lucerne 1991.
- Carl Pfaff : The world of Swiss picture chronicles. Edition 91, Schwyz 1991, ISBN 3-905515-01-7 . (Catalog for the exhibition of the same name).
Web links
- Digital edition on e-codices - Switzerland's virtual manuscript library
- Carl Pfaff: picture chronicles. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Manuscript census
Individual evidence
- ^ Anne-Marie Dubler : Erlach, Rudolf von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ Facsimile ( Memento of the original dated November 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
