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| ''Der Altenn Fechter an fengliche Kunst''
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| ''Fechtbuch. Die Ritterliche, Mannliche Kunst''
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| author(s)                = {{collapsible list
 
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  | [[author::Johannes Lecküchner]]
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  | [[author::Hans Lebkommer]]
 
  | [[author::Johannes Liechtenauer]]
 
  | [[author::Johannes Liechtenauer]]
 
  | [[author::Andre Lignitzer]]
 
  | [[author::Andre Lignitzer]]
  | [[author::Andre Paurñfeyndt]]
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  | [[author::Andre Paurenfeyndt]]
 
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  | [[type::Wrestling manual]]
 
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| sources                  = ''[[Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey (Andre Paurñfeyndt)|Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst<br/>der Fechterey]]''
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| sources                  = ''[[Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey (Andre Paurenfeyndt)|Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der <br/>Fechterey]]'' (1516)
 
| publisher                = [[publisher::Christian Egenolff]]
 
| publisher                = [[publisher::Christian Egenolff]]
 
| pub_date                  = [[year::1530s, 1545, 1558|1531 - 1537]]
 
| pub_date                  = [[year::1530s, 1545, 1558|1531 - 1537]]
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'''''Der Altenn Fechter anfengliche Kunst''''' ("The Ancient Fencer's Beginning Art") is a [[nationality::German]] [[fencing manual]] printed in the 16th century by [[Christian Egenolff]]. The text is largely a redaction of [[Andre Paurñfeyndt]]'s earlier treatise ''[[Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey (Andre Paurñfeyndt)|Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey]]'', but with significant unique material. Egenolff reset the text and hired noted Strasbourg artist [[Hans Weiditz]] to illustrate it.
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'''''Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst''''' ("The Ancient Fencer's Thorough Art") is a [[nationality::German]] [[fencing manual]] printed in the 16th century by [[Christian Egenolff]]. The text is largely a redaction of [[Andre Paurenfeyndt]]'s earlier treatise ''[[Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey (Andre Paurenfeyndt)|Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey]]'', but with significant unique material. Egenolff reset the text and hired noted Strassbourg artist [[Hans Weiditz]] to illustrate it.
  
 
== Publication History ==
 
== Publication History ==
  
The first three printings of ''Der Altenn Fechter anfengliche Kunst'' are undated, but the first edition must have been printed between 1531, when Egenolff set up his shop in Frankfurt-am-Main, and Weiditz' death in 1537. The second and third editions were released some time before Egenolff's own death in 1555; a copy of the second edition that recently came up for auction was dated to ca. 1535,<ref>''[Lecküchner]. Der Allten Fechter Gründtliche''. [http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6749760 Live Auctioneers]. Retrieved 10 November 2011.</ref> but this date seems speculative. In 1558, Egenolff's heirs published a fourth edition posthumously.<ref>According to [[page:DAFaK 1558 mIIIv.jpg|page XLVIIv]] of the fourth edition.</ref>  
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The first three printings of the book are undated, but the first edition, titled ''Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst'', must have been printed between 1531, when Egenolff set up his shop in Frankfurt-am-Main, and Weiditz' death in 1537; a copy of the first edition that recently came up for auction was dated to ca. 1535,<ref>''[Lecküchner]. Der Allten Fechter Gründtliche''. [http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6749760 Live Auctioneers]. Retrieved 10 November 2011.</ref> but this date seems speculative. The second edition, titled ''Der Altenn Fechter an fengliche Kunst'', and the third edition, titled ''Fechtbuch. Die Ritterliche, Man{{dec|u|n}}liche Kunst'', were released some time before Egenolff's own death in 1555. In 1558, Egenolff's heirs published a fourth edition (titled the same as the third) posthumously.<ref>According to [[page:DAFaK 1558 mIIIv.jpg|page 47v]] of the fourth edition.</ref>  
  
 
In the 1600s, a fairly faithful [[OPLODIDASKALIA sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri (Cod.1246)|manuscript]] including portions of both this text and [[Albrecht Dürer]]'s ''[[OPLODIDASKALIA sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri (MS 26-232)|OPLODIDASKALIA sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri]]'' was created by an unknown scribe (it has since been lost).
 
In the 1600s, a fairly faithful [[OPLODIDASKALIA sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri (Cod.1246)|manuscript]] including portions of both this text and [[Albrecht Dürer]]'s ''[[OPLODIDASKALIA sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri (MS 26-232)|OPLODIDASKALIA sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri]]'' was created by an unknown scribe (it has since been lost).
  
 
== Contents ==
 
== Contents ==
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This is the table of contents for the first edition. The order of sections remains generally the same through all editions, apart from moving the index to the end of the book, but the exact pagination varies.
  
 
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! <p>Transcription<br/>by [[Alex Kiermayer]]</p>
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| '''[Ir]''' Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst. Mitsampt verborgenen heymlicheyten / Kämpffens / Ringens Werffens. Figürlich fürgemalet / Bißher nie ann tag kommen.
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| '''[IIr] Vorred an den Leser.'''
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| {{section|Page:Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst (Christian Egenolff) 1531-1537.pdf/8|3|lbl=2r.3}}
Das die rechte Kunst der Fechterei / ein alte freie kunnst / bei unsern vorfaren in grosser achtung unnd ernstlichem gebrauch ghalten ist auß vilen Monumenten wol kundt. Aber eygentlich [ist so] ein eitel gauckel werck / wie bei etzlichen den unseren gsehe[n o]der ein flegel fechten / welichs anderen viler beste stuck (wie sie es nennen) so sie on alle kunst / nur mit zugethanen augen / als von den Andabathern gesagt würdt / drein schlahenn. Daher geschichts auch das solche zu vil malen mit ihrer kunst / ie derman zu spot komen / und deren (Ich red von etzlichen) gar sel ten einer / ungelämet oder unverhönt / eins rechten tods abstirbt.
 
  
 
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| Es gschicht aber diser theuren kunst / gleich wie allen rechten künsten und gaben Gottes / dweil sie ein ieder nach seinem kopffe glosieren / meystern un zurstücklen wil / das schir der recht grund und gebrauch gar erloschen.
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| Es ist bei den Altenn / fürnemlich den Römeren / ein Fechten gewesen / gmeynlich uff freyden tagen / Festen unnd anderen versamlungen / nur von eygnen knechten und bösen knaben / gehal ten / [d]a es weder krentzlin noch meyster rur / sonder kopff und ku- gel g[e]lten / kein ander scheydts man dann de[r n]odt zugegeben worden.
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| {{section|Page:Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst (Christian Egenolff) 1531-1537.pdf/9|2|lbl=2v.2}}
  
 
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| Zum andern dweil ie kein Zucht oder Leermeyster sogschei de / un in Summa / nit müglich / das die brünstige Jugent / als bald on Kindtheit / zu ernstlichen Sachen bracht / und die hitzigen / feydigen / geylen affect benommen werden mögen / [.]uben sei di Kunst... / als ein leiblich Exercitation und übung / den Jun gen i[n s]onderheit / wie noch augenschein / fast anmuettig / d[ami]t sie a[us] zu allem ihrem thun und handel / vil desto gesch[winder und] '''[IIv]''' hurtiger werden / fürgenommen / In aller hand wehren unn a[uch] zu roß und fuß / wasser unnd land / wie desselbigen vilfaltige an zeygungen hinder ihnen verlassen / underweiset. Und dieweil sie ihrer Jugent / gar fleissig [....]iehen / wie dann hoch von nöten / und in alle weg grosse acht gehabt Nit so jämerlich / on alle underweisung und lere versaumpt / unnd uffwachsen lassen / Wie zu unsern zeitten (leyder) vil gesehen würdt / die wir unsere Kinder anfenglich in allem mutwill / üppigkeit und faulheit erziehen / Einig und endtlich nur in müssiggang / zu allenige schwinden finantzen / beschiß und wucher / wider Gott und den nähsten / abrichtenn. So haben sie hiemit nit alleyn underweisung / sich des feinds im Veld / mit der hand zu erwehren angezey get / sonder auch damit dem gmüt ein wesenlich / gschickliche In stitution / bescheydenlichen handels und wandels / in andern sach en / gegen den leutten / und in allem leben / den begirden zu widerstehn ingebildet. Als nämlich (das ich auß vilen etwas melde) So sie gelert / Dir sei In deß / das Vor und Nach / Zilernen Schwech unnd Stercke gach / Haben sie dabei zuverstehn geben und underweiset / das vil gelegen an einr bequämen [zei]t / [..] in allen geschäfften / Und der gröst schad / solchezeit Indes unfruchtbarlich versaumen und hingeen lassen. Also auch so mann bei ehr und gut ist / und das vor glückseliglich hat / acht haben solch es zubehalten / damit man nit endtlich mit schanden auß dem Vor ins Nachsehen komme. Dergleichen Sterck durch schweche erkennen / bezeychnet das nit eins ieden glatten wortten und f[re]untlichen erzeygen zuglauben / sonder des hinderlists dabei wa[nn] er [...] Mit weych hert brechen haben sie geleret / dabei erinne[r]et nit böß mit bößem zu empfahen / sonder / das gegen einem zornigenn mit gütte mehr außgericht werde. Herwiderumb, Der stets versetzt / Würdt offt geletzt / Gibt zuverstehn / das gegen [..]lichen '''[IIIr]''' leutten keyn gütte hilfft / sonder dadurch nur verkerter werden / und nit baß mitt ihnen naher zekommen ist / dann so man ihn nichts nachleßt. Unnd dergleichen vil schöner underweisungen / hie zuvil zu erzelen / haben sie / unsere Vorfaren / ihrer Jugent / wie in allen dingen / als obgemelt / auch bei dieser trefflichen kunst und leibs übung zuverstehn geben. Derhalb ist diese anleytung / aus rath etzlicher dieser kunst wol erfarnen / Mit vilen Zusetzen / hievor verborgen / wie vor augen / der löblichen Jugent zu ehren / bö sere übungen damit zuverhütten / gneygten willens / außgangen. Got sei mit uns.
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| {{section|Page:Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst (Christian Egenolff) 1531-1537.pdf/10|2|lbl=3r.2}}
  
 
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| [[Messer]] by [[Johannes Lecküchner]]
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{{Page:Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst (Christian Egenolff) 1531-1537.pdf/11}}
  
 
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| [[Dussack]] by [[Andre Paurñfeyndt]]
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| Twelve Rules for Beginning Fencers by [[Andre Paurenfeyndt]]
  
 
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! [[Hans Lebkommer|16v - 20v]],<br>[[Hans Lebkommer|25v - 33v]]
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| [[Messer]] by [[Hans Lebkommer]] (Johannes Lecküchner)
  
 
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{{image|Egenolff title 1.jpg|First edition (1530s)}}
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== Additional Resources ==
 
== Additional Resources ==
  
* Jaquet, Daniel; [[Bartłomiej Walczak|Walczak, Bartłomiej]]. "Liegnitzer, Hundsfeld or Lew? The question of authorship of popular Medieval fighting teachings". ''[[Acta Periodica Duellatorum]]'' '''2'''(1): 105-148. 2014. {{doi|10.1515/apd-2015-0015}}.
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== References ==
 
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Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst
The Ancient Fencer's Thorough Art
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Title page of the first edition
Also known as
  • Der Altenn Fechter an fengliche Kunst
  • Fechtbuch. Die Ritterliche, Mannliche Kunst
Author(s)
Illustrated by Hans Weiditz
Place of origin Frankfurt-am-Main
Language Early New High German
Genre(s)
Sources Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der
Fechterey
(1516)
Publisher Christian Egenolff
Publication date 1531 - 1537
Pages 94
Treatise scans

Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst ("The Ancient Fencer's Thorough Art") is a German fencing manual printed in the 16th century by Christian Egenolff. The text is largely a redaction of Andre Paurenfeyndt's earlier treatise Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey, but with significant unique material. Egenolff reset the text and hired noted Strassbourg artist Hans Weiditz to illustrate it.

Publication History

The first three printings of the book are undated, but the first edition, titled Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst, must have been printed between 1531, when Egenolff set up his shop in Frankfurt-am-Main, and Weiditz' death in 1537; a copy of the first edition that recently came up for auction was dated to ca. 1535,[1] but this date seems speculative. The second edition, titled Der Altenn Fechter an fengliche Kunst, and the third edition, titled Fechtbuch. Die Ritterliche, Mannliche Kunst, were released some time before Egenolff's own death in 1555. In 1558, Egenolff's heirs published a fourth edition (titled the same as the third) posthumously.[2]

In the 1600s, a fairly faithful manuscript including portions of both this text and Albrecht Dürer's OPLODIDASKALIA sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri was created by an unknown scribe (it has since been lost).

Contents

This is the table of contents for the first edition. The order of sections remains generally the same through all editions, apart from moving the index to the end of the book, but the exact pagination varies.

1r - 3r
3r - 4r
4r Twelve Rules for Beginning Fencers by Andre Paurenfeyndt
4v - 16v Sword by Andre Paurenfeyndt
16v - 20v,
25v - 33v
Messer by Hans Lebkommer (Johannes Lecküchner)
20v - 25v Messer by Andre Paurenfeyndt
33v - 34r Sword and buckler by Andre Lignitzer
34r - 35r Dagger by Andre Lignitzer
35r - 37v Anonymous dagger pieces
38r - 46r Anonymous grappling pieces
46v - 48r Staff by Andre Paurenfeyndt

Gallery

Title pages

First edition (1530s)
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Second edition (1530s?)
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Third edition (1540s?)
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Fourth edition (1558)
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Illustrations

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Additional Resources

The following is a list of publications containing scans, transcriptions, and translations relevant to this article, as well as published peer-reviewed research.

References

  1. [Lecküchner]. Der Allten Fechter Gründtliche. Live Auctioneers. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
  2. According to page 47v of the fourth edition.

Copyright and License Summary

For further information, including transcription and translation notes, see the discussion page.

Work Author(s) Source License
Images Hans Weiditz Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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Transcription Michael Chidester Index:Der Altenn Fechter anfengliche kunst (Christian Egenolff)
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