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<p>When someone moves in front of you into the long point on the cross, push the pommel of your sword beyond the hilt of his sword between his two hands and take your left thumb on his hilt and pull back towards yourself so that you open and then strike him.</p>
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<p>When someone stretches into the long point on the cross to you, push the pommel of your sword beyond the hilt of his sword between his two hands and take your left thumb on his hilt and pull back towards yourself so that you open and then strike him.</p>
 
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<p>When you sweep through, drop onto their sword with your long edge and wind toward your left side such that your thumb comes under and speed against the right side of the opponent's neck with your strong and spring with your right foot and back them over it.</p>
 
<p>When you sweep through, drop onto their sword with your long edge and wind toward your left side such that your thumb comes under and speed against the right side of the opponent's neck with your strong and spring with your right foot and back them over it.</p>
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<p>When you shoot beyond, if you run down with the long point or tip on his sword and turn on your left side so that your thumb comes up, move into him with force with the long edge to the right of his neck, and step in front with your right foot, and shoot beyond him.</p>
 
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<p>When you changed through from the striking, and have come to the other side above his sword, thus you may just as well do the devices, as before with the Vexing, and with all things as stated before, to all sides.</p>
 
<p>When you changed through from the striking, and have come to the other side above his sword, thus you may just as well do the devices, as before with the Vexing, and with all things as stated before, to all sides.</p>
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| <p>When you disengage, come to the other side high on his sword so that you can do similar some cases well.</p>
 
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<p>When you fence with someone and come close to them, come into plow and conduct it swiftly by turning from one side to the other, such that your point always stays in front of yourself. From this you can conduct parrying. This is the narrows and in them you can strengthen with the long edge and from this conduct all the previous plays. You can also displace cut and thrust and break misaligned ones and seek the opening with your point.</p>
 
<p>When you fence with someone and come close to them, come into plow and conduct it swiftly by turning from one side to the other, such that your point always stays in front of yourself. From this you can conduct parrying. This is the narrows and in them you can strengthen with the long edge and from this conduct all the previous plays. You can also displace cut and thrust and break misaligned ones and seek the opening with your point.</p>
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| <p>'''Fight to move in on him.'''</p>
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<p>When you fight with someone and approach him, if you come in the cross<ref>Pflug based on the German.</ref> and drive him out, calmly circling from one side to the other and let your tip remain in front of you so that you can make the defense. And note this next: strengthen after with the long edge and from that do all the aforementioned cases or pieces. Also you can defend with the point and break him by striking and disengaging, seeking defense with the tip.</p>
 
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<p>When you fence with someone and come close to them, stand with the left foot forward and position your sword with the point upon the ground on your right side, such that the long edge is up. This goes on both sides.</p>
 
<p>When you fence with someone and come close to them, stand with the left foot forward and position your sword with the point upon the ground on your right side, such that the long edge is up. This goes on both sides.</p>
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<p>When you engage with someone and approach him, set your left foot forward, the point of the sword to the ground towards your right side, and the long edge up. This goes for both sides.</p>
 
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<p>If someone initiates a cut from above or wherever it is, cut in crooked to their opening with a step out.</p>
 
<p>If someone initiates a cut from above or wherever it is, cut in crooked to their opening with a step out.</p>
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<p>If someone strikes high or however after you, strike him in or curve from the side. Open him after with a downwards strike.</p>
 
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<p>Drive in the inverter with your point in their face. When they bind up, strengthen with the long edge and you can conduct all the plays that are previous in the sweeps.</p>
 
<p>Drive in the inverter with your point in their face. When they bind up, strengthen with the long edge and you can conduct all the plays that are previous in the sweeps.</p>
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<p>Drive out with the defender<ref>Likely translating “verkerer” as “bailiff”.</ref> inside. With the tip towards his face and when he moves in, strengthen with the long edge, and you can make the aforementioned pieces regarding the raising.</p>
 
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<p>When you fence with someone, extend your arms long, away from you and rest your thumb up atop your sword and turn your sword with your point away from you. With this you can drive up swiftly from below to your left side and move towards the opponent. From there, you can disengage to whichever side you wish or whatever play suits you, according to advantage.</p>
 
<p>When you fence with someone, extend your arms long, away from you and rest your thumb up atop your sword and turn your sword with your point away from you. With this you can drive up swiftly from below to your left side and move towards the opponent. From there, you can disengage to whichever side you wish or whatever play suits you, according to advantage.</p>
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<p>When you engage with someone, stretch your hands out from you and turn the sword with the tip away from you. You can quickly raise from below and cross to cross on your left side. In going after the man, you can also disengage to the side you want, or pick a piece that you like or serves you.</p>
 
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Revision as of 18:43, 8 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. Lit. short knives.
  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. the word "hocs" means "hooks", but I believe it is meant to be a loanword for ox instead.
  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. This is the zwerch.
  17. This is the sprechfenster.
  18. Lit. “Pass in change.”
  19. Pflug based on the German.
  20. Likely translating “verkerer” as “bailiff”.
  21. Top cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: yglichs in dreu wunder
  22. Corrected from »lanngem«
  23. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: vmbsunst vrsach halben er mag kain folling straich auff dich habñ
  24. Erreur d'impression?
  25. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: dar uber
  26. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: arm
  27. Rephrasing of Ovid's "Cunctis qui placeat non credo quomodo vivat".
  28. Rephrasing of the proverb from Pliny, "ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret".
  29. Hieronymous Büttner