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+ | | <p>'''Here mark these are the out-goings from both sides'''</p> | ||
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+ | <p>''Item:'' from your right side, so swing your sword from both sides and let the sword fall behind your back. In this so grip at the pommel with your left hand and hit the ''flugel''<ref>wing</ref> from the from the [sic] r.s. that your sword comes into the shield. Hit the overthrown<ref>inverted</ref> strike backwards and turn yourself around so you come again in the shield or after you may make a bridge inverted over the head. Thereafter you may do what you will.</p> | ||
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+ | | <p>'''The second going'''</p> | ||
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+ | <p>''Item:'' the second. When you have swung out<ref>upwards</ref> as before, so hit a free under-hew and invert the sword and step with the left foot backwards, so your sword comes to you on your left shoulder. In this strike from below upwards and invert and turn yourself boldly around so your sword sets itself behind [your] back outwardly against the man.<ref>opponent</ref> Thereafter do what you will.</p> | ||
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+ | | <p>'''The third'''</p> | ||
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+ | <p>When you have swung as before, so make a counter before you and step with the right foot to the left and hew the ''flugel'' over your r. arm and step with the l. foot backwards against the man<ref>opponent</ref> and turn your sword behind [your] back here out that your point stands against the man in the ''stortz''.<ref>plunge</ref> Thereafter do what you will, or fall there out in the under-plunge to your r. side.</p> | ||
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+ | | <p>'''Another'''</p> | ||
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+ | <p>When you have hewed in the middle-hew to your l. s. that your sword here comes around with a stab on your r. arm against the man, thereafter strike against your r. s. and spring and invert in the height that your sword goes close to your l. foot above. Thereafter do the leap before the man or what you will.</p> | ||
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+ | | <p>'''Another going'''</p> | ||
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+ | <p>''Item:'' from your r. s. reverse your r. hand by the cross and your left by the pommel and leap on your r. s. in the shield there over a free leap as you will.</p> | ||
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+ | | <p>''Item:'' know that the three counters are one. Take in the wide before you, the second under the right leg, the third in the center, and is after all one kind. Item: when you have swung on,<ref>upwards</ref> so make a long counter in before you and turn the sword to the back, so strike up from the r. s. and invert in the height so your sword comes behind [your] back outward. Do thereafter what you will.</p> | ||
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Revision as of 20:39, 17 July 2018
Οπλοδιδασκαλια sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri | |||||
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MS 26-232, Albertina Vienna, Austria | |||||
Folio 61r | |||||
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Type | |||||
Date | ca. 1512 | ||||
Place of origin | Nuremberg, Germany | ||||
Language(s) | Early New High German | ||||
Author(s) | Unknown | ||||
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Illustrator(s) | Albrecht Dürer | ||||
Size | 127 folia | ||||
Format | Generally single-sided; two or three illustrations per side, with text on the right | ||||
Script | Bastarda | ||||
Exemplar(s) | Codex I.6.4º.2 (1470s) | ||||
Treatise scans |
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Οπλοδιδασκαλια sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri ("Weapon Training, or Albrecht Dürer's Meditation on the Handling of Weapons", MS 26-232) is a German fencing manual created in 1512 by Albrecht Dürer,[1] and is thus the earliest known fencing manual illustrated by a master artist. The original currently rests in the Graphische Sammulung of the Albertina in Vienna, Austria. This treatise, like all of Dürer's fencing material, appears to be connected with the visit of Emperor Maximilian I to Dürer's home city of Nuremberg in 1512.[1]
Dürer was an important figure in the German renaissance, and is noted for his realistic depictions of human anatomy; this is significant as the illustrations in earlier fencing manuals are often considered distorted or otherwise less unreliable. Much of the material seems to be copied from the earlier treatises of the Codex Wallerstein and the Glasgow Fechtbuch, making it part of the Nuremburg tradition. The lost Codex 1246 seems to have been copied in turn from this manuscript (as well as Christian Egenolff's reprint of Andre Paurñfeyndt) in the early 1600s.
Contents
Provenance
The known provenance of the MS 26-232 is:[2]
- Created by Albrecht Durer in Nuremberg in ca. 1512, probably for Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I.
- Early 1600s - Copied by an unknown scribe to produce the Codex 1246.
- 1823 - Discovered in Styria, Austria, by theologian Vincenz Weintridt.
- 1833 - Presented to Emperor Franz I by Weindridt.
- Present - Held by the Albertina in Vienna, Austria.
Contents
Ir - 3v |
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4r - 12r | Blank | ||||||||||||||||||
14r - 53r | Grappling teachings from the Nuremberg tradition | ||||||||||||||||||
53r - 59r | Blank | ||||||||||||||||||
60r - 66r | Longsword teachings from the Nuremberg tradition | ||||||||||||||||||
66v - 67v | Dagger teachings from the Nuremberg tradition | ||||||||||||||||||
68r - 72r | Blank | ||||||||||||||||||
73r - 92r | Messer teachings from the Nuremberg tradition | ||||||||||||||||||
93r - 95r | Blank | ||||||||||||||||||
96r - 100v | Gloss of the Recital on the Messer by Johannes Lecküchner (abridged) | ||||||||||||||||||
100v | Verse on mounted fencing | ||||||||||||||||||
100v | Recital on short sword fencing by Johannes Liechtenauer | ||||||||||||||||||
100v | Grappling by Ott Jud (fragment) | ||||||||||||||||||
101r |
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101rv | Short sword fencing by Andre Liegniczer (fragment) | ||||||||||||||||||
105r - 112v | Gloss of Liechtenauer's Recital on short sword fencing by Sigmund ain Ringeck (jumbled) | ||||||||||||||||||
112v - 116v |
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116v - 124r | Gloss of Liechtenauer's Recital on long sword fencing by Jud Lew | ||||||||||||||||||
125r - 127r |
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Gallery
As the Albertina has thus far declined to produce new scans, only the fragmentary facsimile published by Friedrich Dörnhöffer in 1910 is currently available.
Additional Resources
- Dörnhöffer, Friedrich. "Albrecht Dürers Fechtbuch". Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses. Vienna: 1909. pp 300-462.
- Dörnhöffer, Friedrich. Albrecht Dürers Fechtbuch. Vienna: F. Tempsky, 1910.
- Dürer, Albrecht and Wassmannsdorff, Karl. Die Ringkunst des deutschen Mittelalters. Liepzig: Priber, 1870.
- Strauss, Walter L. The complete drawings of Albrecht Dürer. New York: Abaris Books, 1974. ISBN 0913870005
References
Copyright and License Summary
For further information, including transcription and translation notes, see the discussion page.
Work | Author(s) | Source | License |
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Images | Friedrich Dörnhöffer | Albrecht Dürers Fechtbuch | |
Translation | Michael Chidester | Wiktenauer | |
Transcription | Friedrich Dörnhöffer, Dierk Hagedorn | Index:Oplodidaskalia sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri (MS 26-232) |