Luzerner Schilling

Both the illustrations and the accompanying narratives are remarkably lively and realistic. Two painters can be distinguished, one keeping in the more traditional gothic style of manuscript illumination—this is believed to be Schilling himself—while the other develops a new, specifically Swiss artistic style that culminates in the works of Niklaus Manuel Deutsch and Hans Holbein the Younger in the mid-16th century. A reproduction was published in 1932 on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the, and a full colour facsimile by the Faksimile Verlag of Lucerne in 1981. • Illustration — fol. 61v; disasters in connection with two comets sighted in 1456 • Illustration — fol. 206r; Gian Maria Sforza of Milano, bishop of Genoa, travels to Zurich to hire mercenaries; Jörg Supersaxo, a traitor bribed by the Milanese, is arrested at the fish market of Lucerne. • Illustration — fol. 259r; Carnival dance on the Landmatte of Schwyz • Illustration — fol. 327v; Swiss mercenaries crossing the Alps • Illustration — Schilling mercenaries training. • Illustration — fol. 339v; the duchess of Monfort frees a condemned prisoner on his way to the gallows • Illustration — Jews (identified by the mandatory Jewish badge and Jewish hat) being burned during the Black Death in 1348 • Illustration — Zürich joins the Swiss Confederacy in 1351 • Illustration — Battle of Grunwald (15 July 1410) • Illustration — Battle of Hard (Swabian War) • Illustration — After the Battle of Triboltingen (Swabian War) • Illustration — Storm of Thayngen (Swabian War) • Illustration — Battle of Giornico (28 December 1478)

• Paul Ganz, The Lucerne Chronicle of Diebold Schilling, The Burlington Magazine (1933).