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Joachim Meyers Fäktbok (MS A.4º.2)

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Joachim Meyers Fäktbok
MS A.4º.2, Lunds Universitets Bibliotek
Lund, Sweden
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Opening, ff 2v - 3r
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Type Fencing manual
Date ca. 1568
Language(s) Early New High German
Author(s) Joachim Meÿer
Scribe(s) Joachim Meÿer (?)
Illustrator(s) Unknown
Patron Otto Graf von Sulms, Minzenberg and Sonnenwaldt
Material Paper, in a leather binding
Size 89 folia
Format Double-sided; occasional images scattered throughout text
Script Secretary
External data
Treatise scans

The MS A.4º.2 is a German fencing manual created by Joachim Meÿer in ca. 1568.[1] The original currently rests in the holdings of Lunds Universitets Bibliotek in Lund, Sweden. This manuscript, which may be Meÿer's earliest work, was created for his private student Otto Graf von Sulms, Minzenberg and Sonnenwaldt.[2] It contains lessons in the use of the longsword, the dussack, and the side sword, and it has much in common with the substantially larger book he would publish in 1570, Gründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechtens.

Provenance

The known provenance of the MS A.4º.2 is:[1]

  • Written in the 1560s for Graf Otto von Solms; probably when he visited Strasbourg in 1568.
  • 1568-1612 – owned by Otto von Solms (1550-1612).
  • 1612-1642 – owned by Friedrich Albert von Solms (taken as spoils of war by Johannes Levi von Sommerlad, 1642).
  • 1643-1728 – owned by the Sparre family (gifted by Anna Maria Falkenberg, Axel Sparre's widow, 1728).
  • 1728-1780 – owned by Melker von Falkenberg (donated, 1780).
  • 1780-present – held by the Lunds Universitets Bibliotek.

Contents

Folio Section
1r - 4r Dedication by Joachim Meÿer
7r - 40v Longsword by Joachim Meÿer
44r - 65v Dussack by Joachim Meÿer
69r - 89v Side sword by Joachim Meÿer

Gallery

[Images available for import.]

Additional Resources

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roger Norling. "The History of Joachim Meyer’s Treatise to Otto von Solms." HROARR, 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
  2. According to the dedication on folio 3r.