Pre-1300 |
Viking Saga Excerpts
Saxo the Dane -c. Early 13th Century
Saxo
the Dane
Selected Anecdotes and Accounts
of Epic Combat - from 12th & 13th Century Danish
History
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MS I.33 -c. 1295
MS
I.33
- German Sword & Buckler Manual.
Oldest known European fencing manuscript of c. 1295
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1300-1399 |
Hanko Döbringer's Fechtbuch on the Teachings
of Johannes Liechtenauer -c. 1389
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1400-1499 |
Le Jeu de la Hache -c. 1400
ARMA
Special
- Complete Official English Translation of Le Jeu de la Hache - 15th
century Treastise on the Polaxe!
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Fiore Dei Liberi - Flos Duellatorum in Armis
-c. 1410
MS 3542 - Harleian Manuscript or "The
Man Who Wol" -c. 1430s
Gladiatoria -c. 1430
Anonymous
German Fechtbuch manuscript from the mid-1400s - Gladiatoria.
A significant work covering armored combat.
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Sigmund Ringeck's Commentaries on Johann Liechtenauer's
Fechtbuch-c. 1440
ARMA
special - Sigmund Ringeck
Portions of Master Ringeck's comentaries on Liechtenauers
Fechtbuch c. 1440. One of the major sources for
the German school.
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Peter von Danzig Manuscript -c. 1452
Peter
Von Danzig's Fechtbuch on Liechtenauer, 1452. Material
in the member's area.
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Paulus Kal Fechtbuch -c. 1458-1467
Paulus
Kal - Fechtbuch, c. 1460. Covers long-sword, messer, sword
& buckler, dagger, and wrestling. Material
in the member's area.
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Talhoffer's Fechtbuch -1459
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Talhoffer's Fechtbuch -1467
Hans
Talhoffer
- Images from one of the great texts of the Medieval
German Masters.
Editions
from 1443 & 1459 and also Fechtbuch
Edition 1467. Full PDF facsimile versions in the
Members area.
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Codex Wallerstein -c. 1470
Vom
Bauman's Fechtbuch. Images from the Codex Wallerstein
a collection of anonymous German text and illustrations
on fighting from c. 1470
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Fillipo Vadi - Liber de Arte Gladitoria Dimicandi
-c. 1482-1487
The
Book on the Art of Fighting With Swords by Fillipo
Vadi.
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Hans Lecküchner -c. 1482
Hans
Lecküchner (Johannes
Leckuechner) - Fechtbuch of c. 1482. Original Langen
Messer material now in the member's area.
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Mertin Siber's Fechtlehre -1491
Mertein Hündsfelder - Fechtlehre mit dem
Kurzen Schwert -c. 1491
Hugues Wittenwiller -c. 1493
Hans Wurm -c. 1490s
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1500-1599 |
Anon Lib.pict A.83 -c. 1500
Anonymous
Fechtbuch Libr.Pict.A.83
- c.1500+. Armored and unarmored longsword, sword
& buckler.
Full PDF facsimile copy now in Member's
area.
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Das Solothurner Fechtbuch -c. 1506-1514
Albrecht Duerer's Fechtbuch -c. 1512
Artwork
from Albrecht Duerer's early 16th century Fechtbuch
-c. 1512
Full
PDF Facsimile Copy now in Member's area.
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Goliath -c. 1510-1520
Anonymous
Swiss-German manuscript circa 1510-1520 - Goliath.
A significant work covering unarmored great-sword combat
and wrestling.
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Jörg Wilhalm -c. 1522
Jörg
Wilhalm 1st edition - little known and excellent long-sword
Fechtbuch from earlier edition, c 1522. Full
PDF facsimile copy now in Member's area.
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Jörg Wilhalm -c. 1523
Jörg
Wilhalm -later edition two editions from 1523. Full
PDF facsimile copy now in Member's area.
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Christian Egenolph's Fechtbuch -c. 1531
Portions
of Christian Egenolph's Fechtbuch compilation of
c. 1482. Original Langen Messer material, and 1531
long-sword translation now in the Member's Area.
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Additional Manuscript 39564 -c. 1535-1550
Achille Marozzo - Opera Nova -c. 1536
Achille
Marozzo - Images from Opera
Nova, 1536. One of the major fencing texts of
the period. Full PDF Facsimile copy
now in Member's area.
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Paulus Hector Mair - Opus Amplissimum de Arte
Athletica -1542
Images
from Paulus Hector Mair's
extraordinary Fechtbuch of c. 1542 are now online
here. Includes many unique elements and weapons.
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Martin Van Heemskerck - Fechter und Ringer -1550
Martin
Van Heemskerck, Fechter und Ringer, engravings,
1550.
Material now in the member's area.
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Camillo Agrippa - Trattato di Scientia d'Arme,
con vn Dialogo di Filosofia -1553
Images
from Camillo Agrippa's 1553 treatise.
The first major 16th century work to focus on the thrust
over the cut.
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Joachim Meyer - Kunst des Fechtens -1570
Giacomo Di Grassi - His True Arte of Defence
(Italian edition) -1570
Images
from the 1570 Italian edition of Giacomo Di Grassi's important
work His
True Arte of Defence on weapons and fencing.
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Frederico Ghisliero - Regole do molti cavagliereschi
esserciti -c. 1587
ARMA
Special
- Introduction to Frederico
Ghislieros Rapier Text of 1587.
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Codex Guelf 83.4.Aug.8° -1591
Vincentio Saviolo - His Practice in Two Books
-1595
Vincentio
Saviolo: His Practice in Two Books - 1595. Full
PDF facsimile copy now in Member's area.
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George Silver - Paradoxes of Defence and
Brief Instructions Upon My Paradoxes of Defence -c. 1599
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1600-1699 |
Anonymous Spanish Rapier Work -c. early 17th century
Anonymous
Spanish Rapier Work. c. early 17th century. 35 images
with titles and reference notes. Full PDF facsimile copy
now in Member's area.
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Salvatore Fabris - Sienz e Practica d Arme
-1606
Salvator
Fabris - 1606, Sienz
e Practica d Arme (About Fencing, or Rather,
the Science of Arms) the first important Italian
treatise on the true rapier.
Full
PDF facsimile copy now in Member's area.
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Nicoletto Giganti - Scola overo Teatro -1606
Nicoletto
Giganti's rapier treatise, Scola overo Teatro ("School
or Theatre") - 1606. Full PDF facsimile copy now
in Member's area.
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Ridolfo Capo Ferro da Cagli - Gran Simulacro
dell'Arte e dell'Uso della Scherma -1610
Images
from Capo Ferro's 1610 rapier
treatise, one of the most important works on fencing
ever written. Full
PDF facsimile copy now in Member's area.
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Jakob Sutor - Neu Künstliches Fechtbuch
-1612
Antonio Quintino - Discorso or "Jewels
of Wisdom" -1614
Antonio
Quintino's Discorso. Genoese rapier material
from 1614. Full
PDF facsimile copy now in Member's area.
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George Hale - The Private Schoole of Defence
-1614
Joseph Swetnam - Schoole of the Noble and Worthy
Science of Defence -1617
Girard Thibault d'Anvers - Academie De L'Espee
or "Academy of the Sword" -1630
Girard
Thibault d'Anvers
Academie De L'Espee, "Academy of the Sword",
1630, Cologne.
Now in the Member's area.
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Pallas Armata: The Gentleman's Armoury -1639
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Francesco Alfieri - L'Arte Di Ben Manegiarre
La Spada -1653
Images
from Francesco Alfieri's 1653 L'Arte Di Ben Manegiarre
La Spada, later transition rapier text. Full
PDF facsimile copy now in Member's area.
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Johann Georg Passchen - Vollstandiges Ring-Buch
-1659
Johannes Georges Bruchius - "Of the Single
Rapier" -1671
Nicolaes Petter - Klare Onderrichtinge der Voortreffelijke
Worstel-Konst -1674
Alvaro Guerra de la Vega - Comprehension of
Destreza -1681
Comprehension
of Destreza
by Alvaro Guerra de la Vega (1681). An interesting and
valuable work comparing Italian and Spanish schools of
small-sword. Translation by Miguel Gomez.
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Sir William Hope - The Scots Fencing Master
(the Complete Smallswordsman) -1687
Sir
William Hope: The Scots Fencing Master (the
Complete Smallswordsman) - 1687. Full PDF facsimile
copy now in Member's area.
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Sir William Hope - Advice to his Scholar from
the Fencing Master -1692
Sir
William Hope: Advice to his Scholar from the Fencing
Master - 1692. Full PDF facsimile copy now in Member's
area.
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Sir William Hope - Compleat Fencing-Master
-1692
Sir
William Hope: Compleat Fencing-Master - 1692. Full
PDF facsimile copy now in Member's area.
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Sir William Hope - The Swordsman's Vade-Mecum
-1694
Sir
William Hope: The Swordsman's Vade-Mecum - 1694.
Full PDF facsimile copy now in Member's area.
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1700-Present |
Henry Angelo - Hungarian & Highland Broad
Sword -1798
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Alfred Hutton - Cold Steel and Old Sword-Play
-c. 1889-1892
Alfred
Hutton - Famous scholarly works by a Victorian era fencer
and military man. Cold Steel, 1889 (11.1mb PDF) and Old Sword-Play,1892 (5.54mb PDF)
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