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Gladiatoria (MS Germ.Quart.16)

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Gladiatoria
MS Germ.Quart.16, Biblioteka Jagiellońska
Kraków, Poland

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ff Ⅰv - 1r
HagedornLeng38.2.2
Wierschin2Hils28
Type
Date ca. 1440s
Language(s) Early New High German
Author(s) Unknown
Size 59 folia (178 mm × 196 mm)
Format Double-sided; one illustration per side,
with text below
Exemplar(s) MS KK5013 (1430s)
Previously kept Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
External data Library catalog entry
Treatise scans
Other translations Traduction française

Gladiatoria (MS Germ. quart. 16) is a German fencing manual probably created in the 1440s.[1] The original currently rests in the holdings of the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków, Poland. The MS Germ. quart. 16 is part of the Gladiatoria group, a series of several German manuscripts from the 15th century that share the same art style and cover the same material, and is the manuscript for which the complex is named.

The core of the Gladiatoria group is a series of devices of armored fencing following the traditional progression of a judicial duel: beginning with spears and small shields called ecranches, moving to longswords, then employing daggers on foot and on the ground. (Traditional dueling would often begin on horseback before going to foot combat, and the ecranche is designed for mounted fighting, but Gladiatoria seems to skip that stage entirely.) The Gladiatoria manuals are interesting texts in that they seem to be contemporary with the tradition of Johannes Liechtenauer, but not directly influenced by it.[citation needed]

Provenance

Contents

1r - 7r Spear in armor from Gladiatoria
7v - 33r Sword in armor from Gladiatoria
33v - 49r Dagger in armor from Gladiatoria
49v - 54r
54v
55r
55v
56r - 59r Wrestling from Gladiatoria
59v

Gallery

Images hosted on Wiktenauer with permission from the Biblioteka Jagiellońska.

Front Cover
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Inside Cover
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Ⅰr
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Ⅰv
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Folio 1r
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Folio 1v
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Folio 2r
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Folio 2v
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Folio 3r
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Folio 3v
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Folio 4r
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Folio 4v
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Folio 5r
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Folio 5v
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Folio 6r
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Folio 6v
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Folio 7r
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Folio 7v
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Folio 8r
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Folio 8v
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Folio 9r
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Folio 9v
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Folio 10r
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Folio 10v
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Folio 11r
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Folio 11v
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Folio 12r
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Folio 12v
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Folio 13r
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Folio 13v
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Folio 14r
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Folio 14v
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Folio 15r
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Folio 15v
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Folio 16r
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Folio 16v
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Folio 17r
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Folio 17v
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Folio 18r
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Folio 18v
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Folio 19r
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Folio 19v
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Folio 20r
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Folio 20v
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Folio 21r
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Folio 21v
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Folio 22r
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Folio 22v
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Folio 23r
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Folio 23v
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Folio 24r
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Folio 24v
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Folio 25r
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Folio 25v
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Folio 26r
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Folio 26v
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Folio 27r
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Folio 27v
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Folio 28r
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Folio 28v
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Folio 29r
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Folio 29v
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Folio 30r
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Folio 30v
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Folio 31r
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Folio 31v
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Folio 32r
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Folio 32v
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Folio 33r
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Folio 33v
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Folio 34r
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Folio 34v
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Folio 35r
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Folio 35v
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Folio 36r
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Folio 36v
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Folio 37r
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Folio 37v
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Folio 38r
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Folio 38v
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Folio 39r
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Folio 39v
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Folio 40r
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Folio 40v
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Folio 41r
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Folio 41v
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Folio 42r
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Folio 42v
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Folio 43r
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Folio 43v
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Folio 44r
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Folio 44v
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Folio 45r
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Folio 45v
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Folio 46r
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Folio 46v
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Folio 47r
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Folio 47v
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Folio 48r
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Folio 48v
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Folio 49r
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Folio 49v
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Folio 50r
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Folio 50v
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Folio 51r
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Folio 51v
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Folio 52r
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Folio 52v
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Folio 53r
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Folio 53v
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Folio 54r
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Folio 54v
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Folio 55r
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Folio 55v
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Folio 56r
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Folio 56v
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Folio 57r
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Folio 57v
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Folio 58r
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Folio 58v
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Folio 59r
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Folio 59v
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Folio 60r
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Folio 60v
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Inside Cover
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Back Cover
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Additional Resources

  • Cavazzuti, Carlo (in Italian). Gladiatoria. Asola: Gilgamesh Edizioni, 2015. ISBN 978-88-6867-080-1
  • Hils, Hans-Peter (in German). "Gladiatoria: Über drei Fechthandschriften aus der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts". Codices manuscripti 13:1-54, 1987.
  • Knight, Hugh T., Jr. The Gladiatoria Fechtbuch: A Fifteenth-Century German Fight Book. Self-published, 2008.
  • Tobler, Christian Henry. Lance, Spear, Sword, & Messer: A German Medieval Martial Arts Miscellany. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press, 2022. ISBN 978-1-937439-64-4
  • Walczak, Bartłomiej. "Judicial Armoured Dagger Combat of Gladiatoria and KK 5013." Masters of Medieval and Renaissance Martial Arts. Ed. Jeffrey Hull. Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-58160-668-3

References

  1. The date is based on the style of armor used in the illustrations.
  2. twirch nicht ganz eindeutig zu lesen, twirrch ?

Copyright and License Summary

For further information, including transcription and translation notes, see the discussion page.

Work Author(s) Source License
Images Biblioteka Jagiellońska Biblioteka Jagiellońska
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Translation (49v-54r) Kristopher Micozzi Private communication
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Translation (55r) Michael Chidester Wiktenauer
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Translation (55v) Betsy Winslow Wiktenauer
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Transcription Kristian Babic, Robert Brunner, Marion Freundl, Alexandra Gießl, Barbara Kappelmayr, Julia Lorbeer, Carsten Lorbeer, Andreas Meier, Marita Wiedner Index:Gladiatoria (MS Germ.Quart.16)
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