# Luzerner Schilling > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Luzerner_Schilling > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Luzerner_Schilling.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzerner_Schilling > Source revision: 1334103586 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|1513 illuminated manuscript on the history of Switzerland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} The '''{{lang|de|Luzerner Schilling}}''' (or {{lang|de|Luzernerchronik}}, '''Lucerne chronicle''') is an [illuminated manuscript](/source/illuminated_manuscript) of 1513, containing the [chronicle](/source/chronicle) of the history of [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland) written by [Diebold Schilling the Younger](/source/Diebold_Schilling_the_Younger) of [Lucerne](/source/Lucerne). The chronicle is an impressive volume containing 443 colourful full-page [miniature](/source/miniature_(illuminated_manuscript)) illustrations and 237 text pages, which cover the whole history of the Confederation, but with more space given to events of the previous forty years. Diebold, through his father and his uncle [Diebold Schilling the Elder](/source/Diebold_Schilling_the_Elder), came into contact with the art of chronicle [book illustration](/source/illuminated_manuscript) as it had evolved in [Alsace](/source/Alsace) under the influence of [Burgundy](/source/Duchy_of_Burgundy), in works like the [Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse (BnF Fr 2643-6)](/source/Froissart_of_Louis_of_Gruuthuse_(BnF_Fr_2643-6)). 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](/source/Niklaus_Manuel_Deutsch) and [Hans Holbein the Younger](/source/Hans_Holbein_the_Younger) in the mid-16th century. A reproduction was published in 1932 on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the accession of Lucerne to the Swiss Confederacy, and a full colour facsimile by the Faksimile Verlag of Lucerne in 1981. File:Luzerner Schilling 61v.jpg|fol. 61v; disasters in connection with two comets sighted in 1456 File:Luzerner Schilling 206r.jpg|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](/source/Lucerne). File:Luzerner Schilling 259r.jpg|fol. 259r; Carnival dance on the Landmatte of [Schwyz](/source/Schwyz) File:Reislaeufer Luzerner Schilling (cropped).jpg|fol. 327v; [Swiss mercenaries](/source/Swiss_mercenaries) crossing the [Alps](/source/Alps) File:Schilling mercenaries.jpg|Schilling mercenaries training. File:Luzerner Schilling 330v.jpg|fol. 339v; the duchess of Monfort frees a condemned prisoner on his way to the gallows File:Medieval manuscript-Jews identified by rouelle are being burned at stake.jpg|Jews (identified by the mandatory [Jewish badge](/source/Jewish_badge) and [Jewish hat](/source/Jewish_hat)) being burned during the [Black Death](/source/Black_Death) in 1348 File:Bundesschwur Zuerich.jpg|[Zürich](/source/History_of_Z%C3%BCrich) joins the [Swiss Confederacy](/source/Swiss_Confederacy) in 1351 File:Battle of Žalgiris.jpg|[Battle of Grunwald](/source/Battle_of_Grunwald) (15 July 1410) File:Battle of Hard.jpg|[Battle of Hard](/source/Battle_of_Hard) ([Swabian War](/source/Swabian_War)) File:Aftermath Battle of Triboltingen.jpg|After the Battle of Triboltingen ([Swabian War](/source/Swabian_War)) File:Storm of Thayngen.jpg|Storm of Thayngen ([Swabian War](/source/Swabian_War)) File:Giornico Schilling 1478.jpg|[Battle of Giornico](/source/Battle_of_Giornico) (28 December 1478) ==See also== * [Swiss illustrated chronicles](/source/Swiss_illustrated_chronicles) ==Literature== *[https://www.jstor.org/stable/865463 Paul Ganz, ''The Lucerne Chronicle of Diebold Schilling'', The Burlington Magazine (1933).] ==External links== {{Commons category|Luzerner Schilling}} *[http://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/kol/S0023-2 e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311102726/http://www.faksimile.ch/werke/werk.php?l=e&show=2&nr=21 Facsimile] {{Authority control}} Category:Swiss illustrated chronicles {{Europe-hist-stub}} {{manuscript-art-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Luzerner Schilling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzerner_Schilling) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzerner_Schilling?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.