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Revision as of 21:49, 15 December 2014
Goliath | |||||
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MS Germ.Quart.2020, Biblioteka Jagiellońska Kraków, Poland | |||||
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Also known as | MS 5879 | ||||
Type | |||||
Date | 1510 - 1520 | ||||
Place of origin | Southern Germany | ||||
Language(s) | Early New High German | ||||
Author(s) | |||||
Compiler | Unknown | ||||
Illustrator(s) | Unknown | ||||
Patron | Maximilian I (?) | ||||
Material | Paper, with a modern leather binding | ||||
Size | 285 folia | ||||
Format | Double-sided; text with occasional illustrations | ||||
Script | Black Letter | ||||
Identified | Hans-Peter Hils (1983) | ||||
Treatise scans |
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The Goliath Fechtbuch (MS German Quarto 2020) is a German fencing manual created between 1510 and 1520.[1] The original currently rests in the holdings of the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków, Poland. Zabinski speculates based on a number of factors that it was commissioned for Maximilian I (1459-1519), a well-known aficionado of military texts.[2] The manuscript appears to have at least three different scribes, but uses a single artist throughout.[3] It is often nicknamed "Goliath" due to the depiction of the biblical confrontation between David and the giant Goliath on the inside cover. The reason for the inclusion of this painting is entirely unclear, but it may be an allusion to the size of the longswords depicted in the illustrations of unarmored fencing.
Goliath is a compilation text consisting of treatises on a variety of martial topics by several different masters, most of whom who stood in the tradition of the grand master Johannes Liechtenauer. The first several sections include elaborately painted illustrations, but the images cease abruptly toward the beginning of the section on armored fencing, with the final few illustrations being merely rough line drawings. This in addition to the presence of blank spaces through the rest of the manuscript seems to suggest that additional illustrations were planned but never completed (perhaps due to the emperor's death).
Provenance
The known provenance of the MS German Quarto 2020 is:
- Written between 1510 and 1520 in southern Germany, possibly commissioned by Maximilian I or a member of the Imperial court.
- before 1564 – partially copied by Lienhart Sollinger into a manuscript included in the Codex I.6.2º.2.
- before 1923 – owned by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1817) and Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815-1887). The terms of ownership of both men are unknown.
- 1923-1938 – held by Fischer gallery in Luzern, Germany (donated to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 1938). Offered to Robert Lyons Scott in 1935, but no sale took place.
- 1938-after 1985 – held by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in Berlin, Germany, classified MS 5879.
- after 1985 – held by the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków, Poland.
Contents
Folio | Section | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ir - IIv | Front matter
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1r - 7r | Epitome by Johannes Liechtenauer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7v - 73v | Gloss of Liechtenauer's Bloßfechten by Pseudo-Peter von Danzig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
75r - 86r | Pole weapons by Andre Paurñfeyndt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
89r - 97v | Anonymous dagger devices
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98r - 102v | Dagger by Andre Liegniczer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
103r - 110v | Dagger by Martin Huntfeltz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
111r - 128r, 157v - 159r |
Anonymous grappling devices | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
130v - 147v | Grappling by Ott Jud | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
148r - 157r | Grappling by Andre Liegniczer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
163r - 192r | Gloss of Liechtenauer's Roßfechten by Pseudo-Peter von Danzig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
192v - 196r | Mounted fencing by Martin Huntfeltz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
199r - 251v | Gloss of Liechtenauer's Kampffechten by Pseudo-Peter von Danzig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
252r - 271v | Armored fencing by Andre Liegniczer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
272r - 281v | Armored fencing by Martin Huntfeltz |
Gallery
Images hosted on Wiktenauer with permission from the Biblioteka Jagiellońska.
Additional Resources
- Żabiński, Grzegorz. The Longsword Teachings of Master Liechtenauer. The Early Sixteenth Century Swordsmanship Comments in the "Goliath" Manuscript. Poland: Adam Marshall, 2010. ISBN 978-83-7611-662-4
References
- ↑ Internally dated "1510 - 1520" on the inside cover.
- ↑ Zabinski, pp 83-91.
- ↑ Zabinski, p 66.