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Grůndtliche vñ eigentlichte Beschreibung der Fechtkunst (Hans Wilhelm Schöffer von Dietz)
Grůndtliche vñ eigentlichte Beschreibung der Fechtkunst | |
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Thorough and Proper Description of the Art of Fencing | |
Title page of the 1620 edition | |
Full title | Thorough and Proper Description of the Free, Noble, and Chivalric Art of Fencing, with the Single Rapier and the Rapier and Dagger, After the Italian Manner |
Author(s) | Hans Wilhelm Schöffer von Dietz |
Illustrated by | Unknown |
Place of origin | Marburg, Germany |
Language | Early New High German |
Genre(s) | Fencing manual |
Publisher | Johan Saurn |
Publication date | 1620 |
Pages | 830 pages |
Treatise scans |
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Grůndtliche vñ eigentlichte Beschreibung der Fechtkunst ("Thorough and Proper Description of the Art of Fencing") is a German fencing manual written by Hans Wilhelm Schöffer von Dietz and initially printed in 1620. Copies of the 1620 edition are held by the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen in Göttingen, Germany and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, Germany. The treatise seems to present Schöffer's interpretation of Salvator Fabris' system of rapier fencing; parts of the treatise are extracted from Fabris' 1606 fencing manual, but other parts seem to represent Schöffer's original interpolations of the Italian master's art.
Publication History
The first edition of Grůndtliche vñ eigentlichte Beschreibung der Fechtkunst was printed in Marburg, Germany in 1620 by Johan Saurn. It may have been reprinted in 1640, but as no copies of this edition are known to exist, the few references to it may simply be erroneous allusions to the 1620 printing.
Contents
Page | Section |
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1 - 495 | Rapier by Hans Wilhelm Schöffer von Dietz |
(496 - 989) | Rapier and Dagger by Hans Wilhelm Schöffer von Dietz |
Gallery
[Images of the 1620 available for import]