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<p>But when you arrive with your arms high and someone does as well and they rush in and want to bash you between the eyes or in the breast with their pommel through your arms from below your hands, speed downwards with your pommel, with your arms strong and heave towards yourself and strike them on their head with your sword.</p>
 
<p>But when you arrive with your arms high and someone does as well and they rush in and want to bash you between the eyes or in the breast with their pommel through your arms from below your hands, speed downwards with your pommel, with your arms strong and heave towards yourself and strike them on their head with your sword.</p>
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<p>Or when you come with the arms high and another does too and runs in at you: if he wants with the pommel through your arms and below your hips to bash into your face or the chest. So move in with the pommel strongly below your hands and in pulling towards yourself, and strike with the sword on his head.</p>
 
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<p>Stab the opponent in the face on the inside and slip down through and stab them in the face on the outside. But if they defend that, step between both of their legs with your left foot and reach out over their left leg with your pommel into the pit of their knee and lift up with your pommel and with your left shoulder push them away from you from up high so that they fall.</p>
 
<p>Stab the opponent in the face on the inside and slip down through and stab them in the face on the outside. But if they defend that, step between both of their legs with your left foot and reach out over their left leg with your pommel into the pit of their knee and lift up with your pommel and with your left shoulder push them away from you from up high so that they fall.</p>
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<p>Thrust him inside to his face and pass beyond, and thrust him also from the outside to his face. If he defends that, advance with your left foot between his two legs and pass with the pommel beyond his left leg to bend his knee. And raise him up with this pommel, pushing him with your shoulder above. Thus he will fall.</p>
 
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<p>When someone speeds into the pit of your left knee with their pommel, reach up from below and grab onto their elbow behind their left hand with your right hand and take their weight.</p>
 
<p>When someone speeds into the pit of your left knee with their pommel, reach up from below and grab onto their elbow behind their left hand with your right hand and take their weight.</p>
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<p>When someone with the pommel puts it in the bend of your left knee, take him with your left hand behind his left hand, and pass with your right hand from below up to his elbow. In taking him with the thumb, so that he must turn himself to the other side.</p>
 
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<p>Stab the opponent in the face on the inside and lodge against them. If they defend that, withdraw suddenly and stab them on the other side. But if they defend that and sweep your point aside, quickly move your pommel over their right shoulder and around their neck and spring behind their left foot with your right and throw them over it.</p>
 
<p>Stab the opponent in the face on the inside and lodge against them. If they defend that, withdraw suddenly and stab them on the other side. But if they defend that and sweep your point aside, quickly move your pommel over their right shoulder and around their neck and spring behind their left foot with your right and throw them over it.</p>
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<p>Thrust him in the face and touch him with the sword. If he defends himself, pull back and thrust him to the other side. If he defends this too and drags downward to your ear, advance with your pommel beyond his shoulders around his neck, springing with your right foot behind his left, and make him fall over.</p>
 
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<p>When someone has slipped over your right shoulder and around your neck with their pommel, seize their right elbow with your left hand and shove them away from you so that you gain their side.</p>
 
<p>When someone has slipped over your right shoulder and around your neck with their pommel, seize their right elbow with your left hand and shove them away from you so that you gain their side.</p>
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<p>When someone with the pommel is advancing beyond your right shoulder around the neck, take his right elbow with your hand and push him away from you.</p>
 
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<p>When someone has slipped around your neck with their pommel, seize their right arm with your left hand and hold it firmly and turn yourself away from them to your right side and throw them over your left hip.</p>
 
<p>When someone has slipped around your neck with their pommel, seize their right arm with your left hand and hold it firmly and turn yourself away from them to your right side and throw them over your left hip.</p>
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<p>When someone has slipped to your neck with his pommel, take his right arm with your right hand and hold strongly, then turn yourself from him on your right side, throwing him over your left side.</p>
 
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<p>The short sword rightens you<br/>&emsp;Whoever thrusts at you,<br/>With your shield<br/>&emsp;If you wish to make them mild.<br/>Five lessons<br/>&emsp;That guide with correct sense.<br/>Two upon the right,<br/>&emsp;Learn to fence with these.<br/>As many on the left<br/>&emsp;Compose yourself to not waver<br/>And before the opponent<br/>&emsp;Do not let yourself worry<br/>If they are above,<br/>&emsp;Stay below, that I will praise<br/>Learn to displace with your shield<br/>&emsp;Wind in so you can disrupt the masters<br/>If they allow that<br/>&emsp;Grab between their legs, don't be lax.<br/>Step, break<br/>&emsp;Whatever one does, it comes to nothing.<br/>If they take target of you high<br/>&emsp;Grab the sword far in the middle, they will be shamed.<br/>Go through. If they come from below,<br/>&emsp;Displace, grab them by their neck, so that you can wound them.<br/>Make staff, sword wind in.<br/>&emsp;Bring the pommels together, then you have won.<br/>Learn to wind in from both sides<br/>&emsp;Then you can find the art.<br/>Do not hold yourself so close<br/>&emsp;That you will not act<br/>Follow swiftly, then you gauge it<br/>&emsp;For with that, you dupe them.</p>
 
<p>The short sword rightens you<br/>&emsp;Whoever thrusts at you,<br/>With your shield<br/>&emsp;If you wish to make them mild.<br/>Five lessons<br/>&emsp;That guide with correct sense.<br/>Two upon the right,<br/>&emsp;Learn to fence with these.<br/>As many on the left<br/>&emsp;Compose yourself to not waver<br/>And before the opponent<br/>&emsp;Do not let yourself worry<br/>If they are above,<br/>&emsp;Stay below, that I will praise<br/>Learn to displace with your shield<br/>&emsp;Wind in so you can disrupt the masters<br/>If they allow that<br/>&emsp;Grab between their legs, don't be lax.<br/>Step, break<br/>&emsp;Whatever one does, it comes to nothing.<br/>If they take target of you high<br/>&emsp;Grab the sword far in the middle, they will be shamed.<br/>Go through. If they come from below,<br/>&emsp;Displace, grab them by their neck, so that you can wound them.<br/>Make staff, sword wind in.<br/>&emsp;Bring the pommels together, then you have won.<br/>Learn to wind in from both sides<br/>&emsp;Then you can find the art.<br/>Do not hold yourself so close<br/>&emsp;That you will not act<br/>Follow swiftly, then you gauge it<br/>&emsp;For with that, you dupe them.</p>
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Revision as of 19:28, 9 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. Lit. turned as in “soured” or “embittered”.
  22. Zornhau.
  23. Top cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: yglichs in dreu wunder
  24. Corrected from »lanngem«
  25. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: vmbsunst vrsach halben er mag kain folling straich auff dich habñ
  26. Erreur d'impression?
  27. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: dar uber
  28. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: arm
  29. Rephrasing of Ovid's "Cunctis qui placeat non credo quomodo vivat".
  30. Rephrasing of the proverb from Pliny, "ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret".
  31. Hieronymous Büttner