Codex germanicus monacensis 558
The Codex germanicus monacensis 558 , Cgm 558 for short , is a German-language collective manuscript of the Munich State Library , which consists of two parts that were bound together in the 16th century (around 1530). It is particularly significant due to the text on the art of fencing ( fencing book ) in the second part, also known as the Swiss fencing sheet .
The manuscript comes from north-east Switzerland ( St. Gallen area ) and came to Munich via the Jesuit College Augsburg . The invocation of St. Gallus by the scribe Otmar Gossow (sheet 100ra), who wrote the first part, a legal book, in 1462.
The second part with specialist prose texts was created by two hands in the 15th century (A and B). Hand B belongs to a Hugo Wittenwiller (the year given is probably to be interpreted as 1493).
Contents of the manuscript
- First part, written by Otmar Gossow in 1462
- 1r – 94v: Schwabenspiegel
- 94v – 100r Landfrieden of King Rudolf , 1287
- Second part
- Hand A, 101-124
- 101r – 109v Chronicle of Zurich by Eberhard Müllner (1350–1386), Gamper A. 1.2
- 109v – 113r Chronological Notes on Swiss History , 1385 - 1446
- 113r – 124r Small Toggenburg Chronicle
- Hand B (Hugo Wittenwiler), 125–150
- 125r – 136v fencing book
- 136r – 141r Doctrine of the Signs of the Deer
- 141r-150r Beizbüchlein (incomplete)
- Hand A, 151-160
- 151r – 153r planetary verses
- 153r-160r monthly regimen (with discarded days)
- Hand A, 101-124
Swiss fencing slip
The fencing book covers the long sword , polearms ( stalked beard , spit ), mounted fencing, the Swiss sword , the dagger , the unarmed fight against an armed opponent, as well as wrestling on 12 pages .
The English Wikipedia is more detailed .
In the Internet especially active buyers of historical fencing lessons take on their websites repeatedly handwriting respect.
literature
- Ulrich-Dieter Oppitz, German Law Books of the Middle Ages, Vol. 2, 1990, p. 694 No. 1078
- Rudolf Gamper, The Zurich City Chronicles and Their Expansion into Eastern Switzerland , Zurich 1984, p. 168f.