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| Hils' catalog      = [[HK::—]]
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| Type               = [[type::Fencing manual]]
| Date               = [[year::1418-1428|1418 - 1428]]
| Place of origin    = Erfurt, Germany
| Language(s)        = [[language::Early New High German]]
| Scribe(s)          = 
| Author(s)          = [[author::H. Beringer]]
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| Material           = Paper
| Size               = 156 [[folia]]
| Format             = Double-sided
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| Script             = [[script::Bastarda]]
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| Discovered         = [[James Acutt]], 2012
| Website            = [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn{{=}}urn:nbn:de:urmel-759ffd0d-cb1b-4886-9e7f-cce82d9885720 Library catalog entry]
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The '''MS G.B.f.18a''' is a [[nationality::German]] manuscript akin to a [[commonplace book]], probably created between 1418 and 1428.<ref name="Kleinau">[[Jens P. Kleinau]]. "[https://talhoffer.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/ms-g-b-f-18-a-modus-dimicandi-magistri-h-beringois/ 1418 Modus Dimicandi Magistri H. Beringois of the Ms. G.B.f.18.a]". ''Hans Talhoffer ~ A Historical Martial Arts blog by Jens P. Kleinau'', 09 July 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2015.</ref> It currently rests in the holdings of the [[Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena]] in Jena, Germany. It contains a statement of the [[Recital]] commonly attributed to [[Johannes Liechtenauer]]; in this manuscript, the recital is attributed to an [[H. Beringer]] and arranged quite differently from other renderings (apart from the manuscript of [[Hans Folz]]).<ref name="Acutt">James Acutt. "[http://chivalry.org.uk/beringois.html Magister H. Beringois: An investigation into ThULB Jena: Ms.G.B.f.18a (Bl. 123va-b)]". ''Chivalry''. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2017.</ref> Given the uncertainty surrounding the [[Nuremberg Hausbuch (MS 3227a)|MS 3227a]], this manuscript could be considered the earliest known text related to the Liechtenauer tradition.<ref name="Kleinau"/>

== Provenance  ==

The known provenance of MS G.B.f.18a is:<ref>According to the [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn{{=}}urn:nbn:de:urmel-759ffd0d-cb1b-4886-9e7f-cce82d9885720 library catalog].</ref>

* Dialect is East Central German with Low German influence, suggesting a region of origin
* 1783 - listed as No. 183a-c in the catalog of the Erfurt Benedictine Monastery St. Peter and Paulas
* 1836 - auctioned at the auction of the library of Friedrich Gottlob Julius von Bülow, collegiate council in Beyernaumburg east of Sangerhausen in Saxony-Anhalt
* 1853 - listed as No. 10 in Wolfgang Maximilian von Goethe's list of possessions (Vienna); passed into the collection of the Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena

== Contents ==

{| class="treatise"
|- 
! id="page" | 1ra - 28vb
| ''Tituli Utriusque Juris'' ("Chapters on Law")

|- 
! 29ra - 32ra
| ''Tabula alphabetica Epitomae Exactis regibus, Expositionum titulorum Decretalium et vocabulariorim iuris'' ("Alphabetical index epitomising the reigns of Kings, Expositions of Distinguishing Titles and legal vocabulary")

|- 
! 32va - 53rb
| ''Epitome Exactis Regibus. Exactis a Romana civitate regibus constituti sunt consules duo... - ... quod supervacuum est provectis et tantum de isto etc. Et sic est finis.''

|- 
! 53va - 56ra
| ''Expositiones titulorum Decretalium'' ("Explanation of Distinguishing Titles")
 
|- 
! 56ra - 72vb
| ''Vocabularii iuris'' ("Dictionary of Legal terminology")  
  
|- 
! 66ra - 72vb
| ''De significationibus anni'' ("On Significant Dates")
 
|- 
! 73ra - 121vb
| ''Margarita decreti'' by Martinus Oppaviensis
 
|- 
! 122ra - va
| ''Experimenta'' by Nicolaüs de Polonia
 
|- 
! 122vb
| ''Pfeilbeschwörung'' ("Blessings of Arrows))

|- 
! 122vb
| ''Waffenbeschwörung'' ("Weapon Blessings")

|- 
! 122vb - 123rb
| ''Armbrusttraktat'' ("Archery/Crossbow Treatise")

|- 
! [[H. Beringer|123va - vb]]
| ''Fechtlehre'' ("Fight-lore") by [[H. Beringer]]

|- 
! 123vb - 124ra
| ''Ausfahrtsfegen gegen den Plötzlichen Tod'' ("Preventions against sudden death")

|- 
! 124ra
| ''Beschwörung gegen Hautkrankenheiten'' ("Blessings against diseases of the flesh")

|- 
! 124ra - 124va
| ''Pulverrezepte'' ("Gunpowder recipes")

|- 
! 124va - 125ra
| ''Losbuch'' ("Book of Divination")

|- 
! 125ra - 125vb
| ''Recepta contra infirmitates mulierum'' ("Recipes to counter Female infirmities")

|- 
! 125vb - 126rb
| ''Recepta diversa'' ("Various Recipes")

|- 
! 126rb - va
| ''Recepta de cura plantarum'' ("Sixteen instructions on the germination and care of crops, mainly concerning trees. 

|- 
! 126r
| ''Beschwörung der Wünschelrute'' ("On the bottom is a Divination incantation")

|- 
! l26va - vb
| ''Orakel zur Wahrheitsfidung'' ("Oracle of Truth")
 
|- 
! 127ra - 150va
| ''Expositio septem psalmorum paenitentialium'' ("The explanation of the seven psalms of penance")

|- 
! 150vb
| ''De legitimis heredibus'' ("On lawful inheritance")

|- 
! 156va
| ''Regulae recte vivendi''

|}

== Gallery  ==

{{image|MS G.B.f.18a 123v.png|Folio 123v}}

== Additional Resources ==



== References ==

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== Copyright and License Summary ==

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