The fencing manual

Anglo is preparing a study of the differences in the various editions of Vigianni's work. Another of the first to focus on use of the thrust over the cut.

One of the earliest rapier manuals yet still includes several cutting techniques. Considered another one of the more significant Italian masters.

Camillo Acamillo Palladini - Italy c. Descors - manual on fence. One of only two of the known major Spanish renaissance fencing manauls that have survived. Hans Senger - Venice, T he Duelling School. Reportedly a series of woodcuts possibly influenced or copied from Joachim Meyer. Covers long-sword, dussack, short staff, long staff, and halberd. Joachim Meyer German - , Kunst der fechtens "A Thorough Description of the Free Knightly and Noble Art of Fencing" , a major Renaissance work on long sword, dussack and messer, rapier, hastate weapons, the staff and wrestling.

Contains 73 exceptional woodcuts. Henry de Sainct Didier - Paris, , "Tracicte' contenan les ecrets du premier livre de l'espee seule". Henrici a Gunterrodt - De veris principiis artis dimicatoriae: tractatus brevis, ad illustrissimum principem Joannem ducem Magapolensem.

Matthaus Welack, Girolamo Cavalcabo Itlay - fencing book of approx. Modern English translation forthcoming. On rapier and other swords. Frederico Ghisliero — , Regole do molti cavagliereschi esserciti - or literally, "Rules of Many Chivalrous Armies".

A very rare work by a young Italian soldier and swordsman revealing connections to Spanish styles. Offers some fascinating material and alternative views. Previously thought lost. Vincentio Saviolo Italy - , His Practice in Two Books rapier One of the more influential and now today popular of the true rapier manuals.

Don Luis P. On rapier. Das Ringersbuch der Hans Wurm - Bavarian, c. Rare Spanish rapier text which includes grappling by a master-of-arms, cavalry captain and member of the war council of the king of Spain. Surviving French edition with 54 color plates. Marco Docciolini Italy - , Trattato in materia di scherma. Giovanni Alberto Cassani - Naples, Appresso T. Longo, Giovan' Battista Gaiani - Italy two books on sword for horseback, Arte di managgiar la spada a piedi e a cavallo , , and Discorso del tornear a piedi , Ridolfo Capo Ferro Italy - , Gran simulacro Considered the great Italian master of the rapier and father of modern fencing.

Antonio Quintino - Genoa, Gioielo di sapienza nel quale si contengono mirabili secreti, e necessarii avertimnenti per difendersi da gli huomini, e da molti animali.

Its true authorship is obscure. Titled in English: "Advertisements necessary for defending oneself against an enemy in many ways, according to various accidents which might occur. Added thereunto also the way to keep yourself safe from many harmful animals…Collected by Giovanni Briccio, Roman. And brought to light by Lorenzo Leandro, Venetian. Carl Thimm also under a "Boiccio" lists the work as edited by one Antonio Quintino and entitled, Gioielo di sapienza or "Jewel of Wisdom in which are contained wonderful secrets and necessary advertisements for defending oneself against men and many animals….

A rare English work commenting on fighting schools of the day as well as recommendations on the rapier method. Contains interesting theories and terms but little in the way of actual methods. A short but highly practical work with interesting views.

Reveals further the influence of Italian civilian fencing on English fighting styles. Nuremberg, Rapier based on Fabris. Over illustrations. Atanasio de Ayala — Spain , , rare short text dealing with staff weapons. Joachim Koppen German - , Newer Diskurs Kunst des Fechtens rapier. Contains crude illustrations all fully described and annotated by the author.

Volume I has five preliminary figures showing the four "haupt Guardien" and a diagram of the rapier and then pairs of rapier fencers, Vol. II has pairs of rapier and dagger fencers. Francois Dancie - Tulle, The most elaborate and lavishly illustrated Renaissance fencing text on rapier. Written in French by a Flemish master teaching a version of Spanish fencing. England - A very interesting English language work on rapier and sword. The author may have been one Gideon Ashwell.

Mendes de Carmona - Libro de la destreza berdadera de las armas…- Spain Unpublished manuscript on paper recently re-discovered. By, fencing master in Seville, who previous wrote a work on Carranza's method. A substantial manuscript covering the principles and fundamentals of fencing and tactics to use in specific situations and earlier working drafts, plus several incomplete later drafts.

Illustrated German fencing text. Theodore Verolini - work from dervived from Joachim Meyer's with other material. William Hope - The Scots fencing-master. Edinburgh: John Reid. London: Dorman Newman. See teh Linacre School of Defence on the Links page for online copy. Later English basket-hilt broadsword, plus quarterstaff and wrestling.

Mercurio Spetioli da Fermo — 15th century Italian master who produced a short poem on swordsmanship that survives now only as a small scroll of lines in verse, the first third devoted to fencing and mounted combat. Capitolo di M. Bologna, by Giovanni Rossi, Antonio Cornazzano - De L'Integritta de la militare art. Book III on armors and offensive and defensive weapons. A treatise on the proper conduct of nobles, including parts on knighthood, honor, lineage, armorials, and nobility, etc. De Ludis Equestribus, vulgo Thurnier und Ritterspielen Jena; Sam.

Adolf Mulleri: A rare book on the lore and law of the tournament and jousting, also examines the legal status and ramifications of the tournament and equestrian contests. Giovanni da Legano - Tractatus de bello, de represaliis et de duello. Treatise on war and the beginning of Italian legal interest in the duel. Spanish work on the lance and jousting. Later reprinted in English by William Caxton Actually a reprint of "Libre del orde de cavallerie", printed in the early 's, and about moral virtues and behavior of knighthood and chivalry.

Depicts fighting practice. Freydal Codex PS fol 64, By Hans Burgkmair. Includes engravings of Maximillian I's martial training. In the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Girolamo Mutio. Vinegia, Jeremias Schemel - c.

Thomas Churchyard. A thousande gentle mennes names, of the best sort of warriours. A praise and true honour of soldiours: a proofe of perfite nobilitie. A triall and first erection of heraldes: a discourse of calamitie.

And joyned to the same some tragedies and epitaphes as many as was necessarie for this firste booke White, Leonard Digges.

Bynneman, Thomas Styward. The first book entreateth of the offices from the highest to the lowest, with the lawes of the field, arming, mustering and training of souldiers, with the imbattailing of such numbers, to the greatest force of the like regiments.

East for M. John Bossewell — Workes of Armourie , , actually about heraldry and an abridgement of an earlier work. Heinrich von Gunterrodt - De veris principiis artis dmicatoriae.

Wiitenberg, A short treatise on the origin of the art of fencing. Luis Gutierrez de la Vega. Written in the Spanish tongue. And newlie translated into English, by Nicholas Lichefild Manual on military drill and practice. Interesting comments on the rapier. Sir R. One modern Italian version was edited and published by F. Novati, Bergamo, Another translation was produced in by historical fencing researcher Marco Rubboli and published in Italy by Gladiatoria. Novati in This was originally part of a larger collective binding entitled Arte di armeggiare a piedi ed acavallo, of which it composed pages ff The work was split up in and its other contents are unknown.

Fechtbuch des Sigmund Ringeck Commentaries on Liechtenauer. Fechtbuch from the s. Interpretations on Liechtenauer. One of the most thorough but not complete views of the pragmatic art of Medieval German fencing as earlier conceived by Liechtenauer. Ringeck wrote, "To fence with your whole body and with force is your wish.

Includes Liechtenauer kampffechten. Talhoffer was the master-of-arms for the army of Prince Koenigsegg and was himself a member of the Jorgsbrueder, or Brotherhood of St. George fighting guild. Forschungsbibliothek Gotha? Reprinted by Gustav Hergsell, Prague, A translation of this text is also available in the member's area.

Reprinted by Greenhill Publications, London, Translated by Mark Rector. German fechtbuch images with text captions existing in different editions from , , and One of the more widely known but much less detailed fighting treatises. Includes some material on wrestling. The manuscript of Peter von Danzig und Ingolstadt contains the teachings on fighting and duelling by Meister Johanns von Liechtenauer, Meister Andreas von Lignitz, the armoured foot combat with the half-sword according to the teachings of Meister Hundsfeld, and the Austrian Meister Ott.

Peter von Danzig copied the comments of Sigmund Ringeck in a literal or almost literal manner. Includes complete versions of Liechtenauer's roszfechten and kampffechten.

Similar to Talhoffer's works. Kal was a fencing master in the service of a Bavarian duke between and He wrote his fechtbuch in for the Dukes Ludwig and Georg of lower Bavaria. Several editions still in existence at least one from This work is a codex of Middle High German manuscripts covering personal combat and various other subjects of Alemanic Switzerland, including non-martial works mostly by Otmar Gossow.

The fencing work, spanning folios r to r, involve unarmored longsword on foot, spear and staff versus halberd, mounted sword and spear, mounted short sword or baselard, dagger, short falchion, unarmed versus armed, and wrestling. It is uncertain whether the author was a fechter or Fechtmeister , establishing it as a major work on the Kunst des Fechtens. Hils refers to this as a non-Liechtenauerian work.

But this has yet to be confirmed. A master from the town of Pisa who served noblemen and was master at Urbino. His treatise is in 2 parts, one text and one mainly pictures with explaining lines not all very understandable. Vadi teaches that fencing is a science, not an art and offers something of the ethics of a Master at the time and that a Master only needs teach to knights and noblemen, since they have the role or protecting widows and orphans and weak people, etc.

For the sword he writes of cuts and the thrust plus footwork, specific techniques. The guards he uses often have the same names of the guards of Fiore dei Liberi, but interestingly the position for the same name not always identical.

Peitri Moniij edtor Anon. Monte was a master of the well-established Bolognese school tradition and wrote extensively in the 's and 's on wrestling, swordsmanship, mounted combat, physical fitness, duelling, military theory, and the use of shields and other weapons as well as sword and cloak. Features mainly armored fighting, long-sword, dagger, unarmed. Similar to Talhoffer, although its date precedes him. Armored and unarmored longsword with some sections identical to Talhoffer, others similar to Duerer.

Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhoch Kaiserhauses. Pauernfeindt transcribed Liechtenauer's verses as prose and rearranged their order as well as added his own passages and half-swording material. A French edition was produced in Over 50 pages of paintings with captions, and another 50 without plus 18 pages of additional text.

Three other later versions also survive. Includes messer and mounted combat. An earlier with cleaner illustrations includes sword and buckler combat as well as sword versus lance, including unarmored man on horseback vs. Christian Egenolph. The first surviving Italian printed manual.

Concentrates on arming sword and buckler, also cloak, two swords, round shield, and pole arms. Not illustrated. Illustrated fechtbuch. Includes work on longsword, falchion, spear, and dagger. Reprint edited by Herbert Berry One of the first to focus on the use of the thrust over the cut. Considered by many an "early rapier" manual despite his use of a clearly cutting and thrusting blade.

Considered one of the more significant masters. Modern Italian edition recently published. Dated but reflecting 15th century combat. Features approximately 70 pages of half-swording and then dagger combat in color with accompanying captions and approximately 40 text pages.

Based on Sigmund Ringeck. Illustrations of longsword reminiscent of Paulus Hector Mair. Fechtmeister from Salzburg, Austria. Puss och kram, Roger!

This makes me happy in a big way. I've been interested in this particular manual for soooooo long. I've never had the time or opportunity to study it at location, so it has remained an unscratched itch so to speak.

You rock! The pen may be mightier than the sword, but the sword sure is a lot more fun! I am quite happy too, although I focus on the longsword and the spear. I, and others, have been trying to make this available for some time.

However, Karl XII was born in , which confuses things a bit. Or, perhaps the illustrations were added later? I will have to talk to the library, I think. Roger, thank you so much for this! There is a copy in Helsinki as well, but since I didn't have a copy of it, this is really helpful. Now there is even more reason to brush up my Swedish.