Tschachtlan chronicle

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The Tschachtlan Chronicle is the oldest of the surviving Swiss illustrated chronicles . It is a paper manuscript with 230 colored, mostly full-page illustrations, which was made in 1470 by the Bern councilors Benedikt Tschachtlan (also: Bendicht ) and Heinrich Dittlinger . The chronicle is sometimes simply referred to as the Bern Chronicle , but it should not be confused with the Bern Chronicle by Diebold Schilling the Elder , written from 1474 to 1483 .

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Tschachtlan carried out all pictures true to detail. In addition to scenes from war and soldiers' life, things from everyday life are also recorded, such as scenes from court and life in the country and in the cities.

The writer of the text was the Bern politician Heinrich Dittlinger. Together, the two wrote the chronicle as purely private work without an official commission. In the epilogue they describe themselves as authors and state that the chronicle was finished in 1470.

The first part of the chronicle, which covers the period up to 1431, is based on the Official Bern Chronicle of Konrad Justinger from 1431. For the period after 1423 it is based on the chronicle of Hans Fründ from Schwyz (for the time of the Old Zurich War ) and probably to an early work by Diebold Schilling the Elder , who had been in Bern since 1460. Of the 230 illustrations in the Tschachtlan Chronicle, 200 depict war scenes.

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Beginning: In the name of the holy dryfaltikeitt, deß vatters, deß sunß and deß helgen Geistz, amen. Alß God Himelrich and Eertrich, all creatures and men created and like the world with a lot of different harkomen is untz an offer of grace that God his native sun santte into the world ...

The Tschachtlan chronicle is kept in the manuscript department of the Zurich Central Library (call number: A 120). A facsimile edition can be viewed.

Editions

  • Bendicht Tschachtlan's Bern Chronicle from 1421 to 1466 , ed. by E. Stierlin and JR Wyss., Bern 1820. Digitized
  • Bern Chronicle 1470 , edited by Hans Bloesch et al., Bern 1933.
  • Tschachtlan's picture chronicle , Lucerne 1986.

literature

  • Regula Schmid: Tschachtlan-Dittlinger Chronik von Bern , in: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle , Vol. 2, 1449-1451.
  • Ellen Beer et al. (Ed.): Bern's great time . Bern 1999, pp. 189–191.
  • Roland Gerber: God is Burger in Bern. A late medieval urban society between rule building and social balance , Weimar 2001.
  • Carl Gerhard Baumann: About the origin of the oldest Swiss illustrated chronicles (1468–1485) . Writings from the Bern Citizens' Library. Bern 1971.
  • Walter Muschg: The Swiss illustrated chronicles of the 15./16. Century . Atlantis Verlag, Zurich 1941.

Web links

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