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| <p>Item. Understand the .5. hews as so: The over-hew from the right shoulder with the long edge and make [a] positioning with your left foot. Also similarly, the left over-hew make position with the right foot and hew with the long edge plunging through your opponent’s head, etc.</p>
 
| <p>Item. Understand the .5. hews as so: The over-hew from the right shoulder with the long edge and make [a] positioning with your left foot. Also similarly, the left over-hew make position with the right foot and hew with the long edge plunging through your opponent’s head, etc.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Item. The text and gloss follows hereafter [on how] one shall hew.'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Item. The text and gloss follows hereafter [on how] one shall hew.'''</p>
  
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| <p>Item. The recital of the longsword follows hereafter.</p>
 
| <p>Item. The recital of the longsword follows hereafter.</p>
  
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| <p>''Item. If you frighten easily,<br/>Do not learn any fencing.''</p>
 
| <p>''Item. If you frighten easily,<br/>Do not learn any fencing.''</p>
  
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| <p>Item. Understand the four openings in the sword thusly: The two over-openings on the head, the other two under-openings to both sides below the arms.</p>
 
| <p>Item. Understand the four openings in the sword thusly: The two over-openings on the head, the other two under-openings to both sides below the arms.</p>
 
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| <p>Item. One play is called the plow. Understand the plow thusly: Wind out from the right lier into the left and from the left again into the right, so that you see what the opponent wishes to deploy upon you or if he thrusts, you can break him.</p>
 
| <p>Item. One play is called the plow. Understand the plow thusly: Wind out from the right lier into the left and from the left again into the right, so that you see what the opponent wishes to deploy upon you or if he thrusts, you can break him.</p>
 
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| <p>Item. One play called the fool. Understand the fool thusly:  Turn the point in the air and hold the shield<ref>alt: squint. Schilt is used as squint elsewhere in this document.</ref> before the head. Whatever the opponent strikes from-the-day,<ref>vom tag</ref> one can break with it.</p>
 
| <p>Item. One play called the fool. Understand the fool thusly:  Turn the point in the air and hold the shield<ref>alt: squint. Schilt is used as squint elsewhere in this document.</ref> before the head. Whatever the opponent strikes from-the-day,<ref>vom tag</ref> one can break with it.</p>
 
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| <p>Item. One play called the clanger. Understand the clanger thusly: Clang once, twice, thrice upon his edge so that you may find him open.</p>
 
| <p>Item. One play called the clanger. Understand the clanger thusly: Clang once, twice, thrice upon his edge so that you may find him open.</p>
 
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| <p>Item. One play called the ox.<ref>alt: armpit</ref> Understand the oxen thusly: Set the pommel upon the chest, the point against the opponent’s face and press<ref>alt: penetrate</ref> strongly into him and hew in the winger and quickly from the right side in the squint. Slash from the squint to the left over-opening and disappear<ref>alt: retreat, recede, vanish</ref> to the right, so that he must displace or become struck hard, etc.</p>
 
| <p>Item. One play called the ox.<ref>alt: armpit</ref> Understand the oxen thusly: Set the pommel upon the chest, the point against the opponent’s face and press<ref>alt: penetrate</ref> strongly into him and hew in the winger and quickly from the right side in the squint. Slash from the squint to the left over-opening and disappear<ref>alt: retreat, recede, vanish</ref> to the right, so that he must displace or become struck hard, etc.</p>
 
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| <p>Item. One play called the speaking window. Understand the speaking window thusly: Make a wind in front of the head, such that your arms are crosswise, so there-between you discern whatever the opponent wishes to deploy and deliver quite great sweeps thereafter. From the speaking window you can strike him to both sides, left or right, etc.</p>
 
| <p>Item. One play called the speaking window. Understand the speaking window thusly: Make a wind in front of the head, such that your arms are crosswise, so there-between you discern whatever the opponent wishes to deploy and deliver quite great sweeps thereafter. From the speaking window you can strike him to both sides, left or right, etc.</p>
 
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| <p>Item: Whoever can make his art measured and it unforgotten [to himself] and holds his sword up high, they are good against four others in conflict, etc.</p>
 
| <p>Item: Whoever can make his art measured and it unforgotten [to himself] and holds his sword up high, they are good against four others in conflict, etc.</p>
 
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| <p>Item. The left over-lier is also the same. Lay the messer upon the left shoulder and place the right foot forward in position, etc.</p>
 
| <p>Item. The left over-lier is also the same. Lay the messer upon the left shoulder and place the right foot forward in position, etc.</p>
 
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| <p>Item. Understand the right under-lier thusly: Place the left foot forward in position and lay the messer upon you right leg, the point against the face of the man, so that you see whatever he will deploy, etc.</p>
 
| <p>Item. Understand the right under-lier thusly: Place the left foot forward in position and lay the messer upon you right leg, the point against the face of the man, so that you see whatever he will deploy, etc.</p>
 
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| <p>Item: A good play for a throwing-spear.<ref>a small spear often on a cord, thrown from a free hand</ref> If an opponent stabs at you, then go beneath him with a hanging point and grab him with the left hand behind the ball of cord and strike at his hand with the messer so that you take the spear, etc.</p>
 
| <p>Item: A good play for a throwing-spear.<ref>a small spear often on a cord, thrown from a free hand</ref> If an opponent stabs at you, then go beneath him with a hanging point and grab him with the left hand behind the ball of cord and strike at his hand with the messer so that you take the spear, etc.</p>
 
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| <p>Item: A good play of the other upper binding-on. Act as if you will bind-on him to the left and bind-on him to the right so that you strike his staff up and then fall into the battle.</p>
 
| <p>Item: A good play of the other upper binding-on. Act as if you will bind-on him to the left and bind-on him to the right so that you strike his staff up and then fall into the battle.</p>
 
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Revision as of 03:43, 19 June 2020

Fechtregeln
MS Best.7020 (W*)150, Historisches Archiv
Cologne, Germany

MS Best.7020 W-150 01v.png
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ff 1v - 2r
HagedornLeng
Wierschin20Hils25
Type
Date ca. 1500
Language(s) Early New High German
(Ripuarian)
Author(s) Unknown
Size 22 folia (145 mm x 100 mm)
Format Double-sided
External data Handschriftencensus
Treatise scans Microfilm scans
Other translations Traduction française

Fechtregeln ("Fencing Rules"; MS Bestand 7020 (W*)150) is an anonymous German fencing manual created around the turn of the 16th century.[1] It currently rests in the holdings of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln in Cologne, Germany; it was housed in the wing of the Archive that collapsed on 3 March 2009,[2] but it was recovered and seems to have been unharmed.

Fechtregeln, also sometimes called the "Kölner Fechtbuch" (Fencing Manual of Cologne), contains several verses resembling Johannes Liechtenauer's Recital, but it has few other obvious parallels to the teachings of the high master.[1] However, as James Wallhausen points out, it does bear a certain resemblance to the syllabus of the Marxbrüder fencing guild as described by Hans Sachs.[3]

Provenance

The known provenance of the MS Bestand 7020 (W*)150 is:

  • Created in ca. 1500[1] by an anonymous scribe; the dialect of German used in the text (Ripuarian) suggests an origin in Cologne, Germany.[4]
  • before 1824 – acquired by scholar and collector Ferdinand Franz Wallraf (donated upon his death, 1824).
  • 1824-present – held by the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln.

Contents

1r Blank
1v
2r - 8r
10v - 12r
13r - 16v
16v - 17r
20r
20v
21v - 22r

Gallery


Front Cover
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Inside Cover
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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
Folio 9r
Folio 9v
Folio 10r
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
Folio 18r
Folio 18v
Folio 19r
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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Inside Cover
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Rear Cover
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Additional Resources

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matthias Johannes Bauer. "Köln, Hist. Archiv der Stadt, Best. 7020 (W*) 150". Handschriftencensus. Eine Bestandsaufnahme der handschriftlichen Überlieferung deutschsprachiger Texte des Mittelalters. October, 2009. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  2. Newspaper article Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung 01.03.2010
  3. James Wallhausen. "The Fight-Lore of the Long Sword From the Kölner Fechtbuch (MS Best.7020)". Paleoeskirmology Historical Combat Systems. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
  4. Handschriftencensus Rheinland. Erfassung mittelalterlicher Handschriften im rheinischen Landesteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen mit einem Inventar. Ed. Günter Gattermann. 1993. Vol. 2, pp. 1319f. (Nr. 2488)
  5. pose,stance
  6. ‘Schielen II’, oblique, like a schielhau. alt: shield. alt: dishonestly. alt: scoldingly
  7. Two cuts, first with the back edge like a schielhau, the second with the back edge like the stürtzhau
  8. Auskehren
  9. A proverb similar to the one also found in Kal (Cgm 1507, 6r)
  10. alt: lift. lyff is a variant spelling of lupf/luft, lauf and leib. Lupf is a quick starting movement. Luft is a lift. Leib is a body. Lauf is a run.
  11. The Wing Hew in accordance with Hans Sach’s account, flügel; appears in Pauernfeindt; “Wing [La Noble Science des Ioueurs Despee (1538): ‘Of the Flight’] Wing is taken from the High Guard or High Point, then initially strike from the Day to the left ear, then another from below whilst treading your left side, the thirdly strike backwards at the head.” Interestingly however, Duëz’s Französische Grammatica mentions on p531 that the translation of “l’epaule, le Flanc” in French is “der Flügel/der Streich”.
  12. gamble, entice, pull to and fro
  13. beiten: abide. In this sense to trick someone into buying a feint.
  14. obliquely, alt: shield
  15. alt: squint. Schilt is used as squint elsewhere in this document.
  16. vom tag
  17. exhileration, intent
  18. understand, perceive
  19. A similar description appears in Meyer, 1.19v.1 (Forgeng 2006, 64)
  20. alt: armpit
  21. alt: penetrate
  22. alt: retreat, recede, vanish
  23. alt: shield
  24. withdrawal
  25. sweeps
  26. "b" and "a" in the margin are to show that the two plays are in reverse order.
  27. alt: corners, angles, extremities, spots, places
  28. Meyer: "Dann je ein Man an deren vier orten einer / von wegen entdeckter Blösse getroffen / oder hinwider zuverhütung dessen / sich in die Hut oder versatzung muß legen." => "For verily a man is struck upon one of these four points, by way of discovered openings or else the counter protection of which [they] must position themselves in the guard or parrying"
  29. There is a verb lechen which means: 'to lift up/draw back something spent, collect retrieve, etc' which is used a few times. look for 'lech' in the transcription.
  30. Liechtenauerian verse, non-attributed. Repeated from 3r.
  31. alt: lift. lyff is a variant spelling of lupf/luft, lauf and leib. Lupf is a quick starting movement. Luft is a lift. Leib is a body. Lauf is a run.
  32. alt: corners, angles, extremities, spots, places
  33. alt: armpit. It is clear here that there is a pun between ocksen and uchsen. The same word is being used in two ways in this manuscript.
  34. Liechtenauer verse.
  35. alt: (straight or diagonal)cut into
  36. Pseudo-zettel, referring to the four openings (vier blossen) verse.
  37. a small spear often on a cord, thrown from a free hand
  38. A knebel is a knot or a lump.
  39. lit: break it of his
  40. alt: stab in and strike in
  41. beuten
  42. no one is prepared for this

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