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<p>If someone wants to strike with the flight, shoot back the first cut from above, strike again the other below with your long cut or edge, and take the pommel of his sword with your left hand, thus (you) hurl him over his sword.</p>
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<p>If someone wants to strike with the flight, shoot the first cut back from above, strike again the other below with your long cut or edge, and take the pommel of his sword with your left hand, thus (you) hurl him over his sword.</p>
 
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<p>Undertake hurling from the upper guard. Cut against the opponent to their left ear with your long edge. If they parry that, act as if you will suddenly withdraw and remain on their left ear with your short edge. Suddenly withdraw and hurl onto their right ear with the flat.</p>
 
<p>Undertake hurling from the upper guard. Cut against the opponent to their left ear with your long edge. If they parry that, act as if you will suddenly withdraw and remain on their left ear with your short edge. Suddenly withdraw and hurl onto their right ear with the flat.</p>
| <p> '''Dragging the long cut'''</p>
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| <p> '''Drag from the long cut'''</p>
  
 
<p>Take the high guard, take the long cut against him to the left ear, if he parries act as if you would like to shoot and remain the short cut to the left ear, pull and strike the flat to the right ear.</p>
 
<p>Take the high guard, take the long cut against him to the left ear, if he parries act as if you would like to shoot and remain the short cut to the left ear, pull and strike the flat to the right ear.</p>
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<p>You can also undertake shooting through from the high point. Cut down from above and with the short edge and inverted hand, down through the roses and into the opponent's face. Let it briefly run off and follow up with the long edge.</p>
 
<p>You can also undertake shooting through from the high point. Cut down from above and with the short edge and inverted hand, down through the roses and into the opponent's face. Let it briefly run off and follow up with the long edge.</p>
| <p> '''To pass below'''</p>
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| <p> '''Pass below'''</p>
  
<p>To pass further can also take the high stance hooks<ref>loanword for Ox?</ref>, take it from high to low through the roses with crossed hands and the short edge in his face, and let it run below briefly to the long edge, and step after.</p>
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<p>Pass further can also take the high stance hooks<ref>loanword for Ox?</ref>, take it from high to low through the roses with crossed hands and the short edge in his face, and let it run below briefly to the long edge, and step after.</p>
 
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<p>Position yourself as before with braced hands, step in with the short edge shot over to the opponent's left ear and make a follow up strike with the long edge.</p>
 
<p>Position yourself as before with braced hands, step in with the short edge shot over to the opponent's left ear and make a follow up strike with the long edge.</p>
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<p>Lower yourself as before with the hands crossed and step with the short edge, shoot further at his left ear, and turn your hands away and strike a long cut after him.</p>
 
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<p>When someone overshoots the short edge, turn the strike away so that you come to strike against strike and the same work.</p>
 
<p>When someone overshoots the short edge, turn the strike away so that you come to strike against strike and the same work.</p>
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<p>When someone passes above you further with the short edge, turn the wing below, thus (you) will have cut against cut and the same or similar action or work.</p>
 
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Revision as of 16:56, 2 February 2022

Andre Paurenfeyndt
Born 15th century
Died 16th century
Occupation
Nationality German
Patron Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg
Movement Liechtenauer Tradition
Influences Johannes Liechtenauer
Influenced
Genres
Language Early New High German
Notable work(s) Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der
Fechterey
(1516)
Manuscript(s)
Concordance by Michael Chidester
Translations Deutsch-Übersetzung

Andre Paurenfeyndt (Paurñfeyndt, Paurñfeindt) was a 16th century German Freifechter. He seems to have been a resident of Vienna, although he mentions in his introduction that he served as a bodyguard to Cardinal Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (1468 - 1540).[1] In 1516, he wrote and published a fencing manual entitled Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey ("Founding of the Chivalric Art of Swordplay"), which Sydney Anglo notes may have been the first illustrated fencing treatise ever published.[2] Little else is known about the life of this master, but he describes himself as a Freifechter and the contents of his book make it clear that he was associated with the tradition of Johannes Liechtenauer. His treatise diverges significantly from the earlier teachings of the Liechtenauer tradition, which may be due to his stated purpose of writing for beginning fencers.

Treatise

Please note that only the first edition (1516) has the complete set of illustrations, and all later versions are disorganized and incomplete; this article follows the order of plays and illustrations laid out in the original, and the variant sequences can be viewed on the transcription pages. Egenolff's illustrations are rather different from Paurenfeyndt's, and smaller thumbnails are included where applicable. Furthermore, the illustrations on pages 57 and 59 of the 1516 don't seem to relate to the plays described on 58 and 60, since they show pairs of fencers with dussacks while the text indicates that one of them should be unarmed. They are included here for reference, but the Egenolff illustrations (which are original and not based on Paurenfeyndt) are the ones that seem to depict something similar to the plays as described. While the Twelve Rules for the Beginning Fencer are unillustrated in Paurenfeyndt's work, this presentation includes the illustrations for six of the twelve found in the MS B.200 (1524).

Rather than presenting the treatise transcriptions chronologically, this concordance groups the three complete German texts together (including Lienhart Sollinger's 1564 copy), followed by the 1538 French translation. There are three shorter manuscript fragments of the German text, and these have been added in additional columns on the far end of the table in only the sections where they appear.

Additional Resources

  • Bauer, Matthias Johannes. “Der Alten Fechter gründtliche Kunst” – Das Frankfurter oder Egenolffsche Fechtbuch. Untersuchung und Edition. Coll. Geschichtswissenschaften 37. München: Utz Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978-3-8316-4559-6
  • Bauer, Matthias Johannes. "Economising Early Prints on Fight Books by Multiple Using Movable Half Page Woodcuts". Acta Periodica Duellatorum 4(2): 99–116, 2016. doi:10.36950/apd-2016-015
  • Bergner, U. and Giessauf, J. Würgegriff und Mordschlag. Die Fecht- und Ringlehre des Hans Czynner (1538). Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2006. ISBN 978-3-201-01855-5
  • Roelofsen, Mathijs. "La Noble Science des Joueurs d’Espée: Fight Book and Commercial Product". Acta Periodica Duellatorum 8(1): 73-88, 2020. doi:10.36950/apd-2020-005
  • Welle, Rainer. "Ein unvollendetes Meisterwerk der Fecht- und Ringkampfliteratur des 16. Jahrhunderts sucht seinen Autor: der Landshuter Holzschneider und Maler Georg Lemberger als Fecht- und Ringbuchillustrator?" Codices manuscripti & impressi. Supplementum 12. Purkersdorf: Verlag Brüder Hollinek, 2017.

References

  1. Ott, Michael. "Matthew Lang." The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.
  2. Anglo, Sydney. The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. p 46. ISBN 978-0-300-08352-1
  3. lit: foot, but can and often mean the leg
  4. alt: flesh wounds, tag hits.
  5. short knives was the literal translation
  6. Likely an error. Crombe is a northern Middle French word for “hunched” (e.g. a person) or “crooked”.
  7. literally: cut through agains their strike. The separable durch-hauen means to strike through something to create an opening. See: https://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB2/2DURCHHAUEN
  8. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: er nit kumeñ
  9. loanword for Ox?
  10. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: Wan dir ainer die kurcz schneid vberscheust so wendt den straich ab, so kumpt dir straich wider straich, vnd gleiche arbait
  11. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: so entplest er sich
  12. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: zuck vnd haw mit langer schneid nach
  13. alt: points, ends
  14. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: schwert mit dem knopf vnter dein recht uxñ
  15. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: schon, die stich trucke mit schnitten sy ab czucke
  16. Top cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: yglichs in dreu wunder
  17. Corrected from »lanngem«
  18. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: vmbsunst vrsach halben er mag kain folling straich auff dich habñ
  19. Erreur d'impression?
  20. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: dar uber
  21. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: arm
  22. Rephrasing of Ovid's "Cunctis qui placeat non credo quomodo vivat".
  23. Rephrasing of the proverb from Pliny, "ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret".
  24. Hieronymous Büttner