Georg Spalatin (1484–1545) is today primarily known as an adviser and confidant of Martin Luther. Prior to this role, however, he held a number of influential positions at the Saxon electoral court, serving as tutor to the princely heirs, court librarian, chaplain, preacher, and confidential secretary to Elector Frederick III of Saxony. Less widely recognised is his activity as a court historiographer. In this capacity, Spalatin received a commission in 1510 to compose a comprehensive chronicle dealing with the origins and history of the Saxons, Thuringians, and Meissenians. What began as a courtly historiographical commission developed into an extensive – though ultimately unfinished – historical enterprise.The sections produced around 1515–1517 are particularly remarkable. Approximately 1,800 illustrations from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder adorn three large-format, sumptuously bound manuscripts that are preserved today in the Landesbibliothek Coburg under the shelfmarks LBC, Ms. Cas. 9–11. Additional materials belonging to the chronicle survive in the form of a later-bound collection of manuscript gatherings housed in the Landesarchiv Thüringen – Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar (HStAW, Ernestinisches Geheimarchiv [EGA], Reg. O 21). Within the digital thematic portal Spalatin Chronicle, these two distinct traditions of transmission are brought together virtually.