{"type":"locations","slug":"basel-1566-broadsheet-site","title":"1566 Basel Broadsheet Site","url":"https://disclosdex.com/locations/basel-1566-broadsheet-site","description":"Basel's 1566 broadsheet site links printed reports from residents to a surviving archive record and later interpretive shifts.","date":"1566-08-07T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Historical"],"lat":47.5596,"lng":7.5886,"connectionCount":0,"content":{"markdown":"## Source Origin at Basel\n\nThe surviving 1566 broadsheet record identifies Basel as the publication site and dates the account to 27/28 July and 7 August, preserved as a single-sheet print rather than a later compiled witness log.[^1]\n\n## Reported Observers and Transmission\n\nThe catalog text references Basel as the reporting context but preserves no named eyewitness list, so the material transmits a localized claim sequence instead of individual testimony.[^1][^2]\n\n## Interpretation Evolution\n\nEarly institutional descriptions frame the sheet as a portent-like warning within a troubled civic setting, while later institutional commentary reframes the same record through historical and atmospheric analysis and catalog context.[^3][^4][^5][^8]\n\n## Archival Trail and Site Reliability\n\nThe broadsheet’s documentation chain is visible through catalog metadata, IIIF object links, DOI registration, and named-attribution search records, which together map how the Basel site report moved into long-term archival circulation.[^1][^2][^3][^6][^7]\n\n## References\n\n[^1]: [Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Basel broadsheet record](https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/zuzneb/content/titleinfo/2725175)\n[^2]: [IIIF manifest for Basel broadsheet item](https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/i3f/v20/2725175/manifest)\n[^3]: [IIIF canvas access for Basel entry](https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/i3f/v20/2725175/canvas/2725176)\n[^4]: [DOI record for Basel broadsheet](https://doi.org/10.7891/e-manuscripta-92162)\n[^5]: [E-manuscripta PDF facsimile for Basel print](https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/zuzneb/download/pdf/2725175)\n[^6]: [E-manuscripta search for print attribution, Samuel Apiarium](https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/search?operation=searchRetrieve&query=vl.printer-publisher%3D%22Getruckt%20durch%20Samuel%20Apiarium%22%20and%20vl.domain%3Demanus%20sortBy%20dc.title%2Fasc)\n[^7]: [E-manuscripta search for Samuel Coccius attribution metadata](https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/search?operation=searchRetrieve&query=vl.name.aut%3D%22Coccius%2C+Samuel%22+and+vl.domain%3Demanus+sortBy+dc.title%2Fasc)\n[^8]: [Swiss National Museum, The celestial event over Basel in 1566](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2024/07/the-celestial-event-over-basel-in-1566/)","readingTime":"2 min read"},"relatedRecords":[],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/locations/basel-1566-broadsheet-site","title":"1566 Basel Broadsheet Site","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/locations/basel-1566-broadsheet-site","license":"CC-BY-4.0"},"continent":"Europe"}