Cologne fencing book

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The Cologne Fechtbuch is an anonymous, five-part duo from the first third of the 16th century. The small manuscript for use is likely to have originated in the greater Cologne area, as it was written in the Ripuarian style (at least in its basic structure) .

Codicological description

Signature: Historical Archive of the City of Cologne , W * 150 (inventory 7020), anonymous collective manuscript (metallurgical recipe and five combat tracts). Paper, 23 sheets, two sex ternions, 145 mm × 100 mm (writing area 120 mm × 80 mm), 16–17 lines in one column, Ripuarian and German, 1st third of the 16th century. Late Gothic italics with rubrications. A schematic pen drawing and several marginal drawings.

From the collection of Ferdinand Franz Wallraf to the Historical Archives of the City of Cologne. When the archive building collapsed on March 3, 2009 , the manuscript was buried. Her fate is currently unknown.

The manuscript was scientifically edited in 2009 . The edition is accompanied by a four-color full print of the lost archival material in its original size (including a Kopert binding : a damaged lectionary from the 2nd half of the 12th century).

content

  • added metallurgical recipe (probably incomplete)
  • Fencing theory in a long sword (conspicuously contradicting the teachings of the famous Johann Liechtenauer ) with a stroke diagram to show how blows are to be applied to the opponent's face
  • Ring gauge
  • Fencing gauge in a long knife
  • Fencing apprenticeship on a pork spit (today: Saufeder )
  • Pole fencing

See also

literature

  • Matthias Johannes Bauer: Long sword and pork spit. The anonymous fencing manuscript from the buried holdings of the historical archive of the city of Cologne. Academic Printing and Publishing Company ADEVA, Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-201-01920-0 .
  • Matthias Johannes Bauer: About unicorn, ox and doe. Special languages ​​in the Cologne fencing book . In: Elisabeth Vavra, Matthias Johannes Bauer (ed.): The art of fencing . Winter, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8253-6699-5 , pp. 251-265 .

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