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Sciomachia et hoplomachia (MS Dresd.C.15)

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Sciomachia et hoplomachia
MS Dresd.C.15, Sächsische Landesbibliothek
Dresden, Germany
MS Dresd.C.15 01r.png
folio 1r
HagedornLeng
WierschinHils
Type
Date 1579
Language(s) New Latin
Author(s) Heinrich von Gunterrodt
Illustrator(s) Louradus Knobloch
Patron Johann VII, Duke of Mecklenberg
Material Paper
Size 76 folia
Format Double-sided; text with scattered
full-page illustrations
Script Humanist
Treatise scans Digital scans (2000x1500)

Sciomachia et hoplomachia ("Unarmed and Armed Combat; MS Dresden C.15) is a German fencing manual created by Heinrich von Gunterrodt in ca. 1579.[1] The original currently rests in the holdings of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek in Dresden, Germany. This manuscript treats grappling, dagger, saber, side sword (both single and with secondary weapons), spear, and poleaxe. The introduction to this manuscripts seems to have been the basis for Gunterrodt's historical treatise De Veris Principiis Artis Dimicatorie ("On the True Principles of the Art of Fencing"), published the same year.

Gunderrodt refers to this treatise as book one, but any subsequent work he had planned never seems to have appeared.

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  1. Internally dated on folio 4r.