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| location         = [[inventory::MS Latin 11269]], [[museum::Bibliothèque Nationale de France]]<br/>Paris, France
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| location           = [[inventory::MS Latin 11269]], [[museum::Bibliothèque nationale de France]]<br/>Paris, France
 
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| Hagedorn's catalog = [[HS::FLP]]
| Hils' catalog   = [[HK::]]
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| Wierschin's catalog= —
| Beck catalog     = [[BC::]]
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| Hils' catalog      = —
| Also known as   =  
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| Beck catalog       = —
| Type             = {{plainlist | [[type::Fencing manual]] | [[type::Wrestling manual]] }}
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| Also known as     =  
| Date             = ca. [[year::1420s]]
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| Type               = {{plainlist
| Place of origin =  
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| [[type::Fencing manual]]
| Language(s)     = [[language::Renaissance Latin]]
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| [[type::Wrestling manual]]
| Scribe(s)       = Unknown
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| Author(s)       = [[author::Fiore de'i Liberi]]
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| Date               = ca. [[year::1410-30|1410s or 20s]]
| Translator       = Unknown
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| Place of origin   =  
| Compiled by     =  
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| Language(s)       = [[language::Renaissance Latin]]
| Illuminated by   = Unknown
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| Scribe(s)         = Unknown
| Patron           =  
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| Author(s)         = [[author::Fiore de'i Liberi]]
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| Material         = Parchment, with a pasteboard <br/>leather cover
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| Material           = Parchment, with a pasteboard <br/>leather cover
| Size             = 44 [[folia]]
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| Size               = 44 [[folia]] (195 mm × 255 mm)
| Format           = Double-sided; two illustrations per <br/>side, with text above each
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| Format             = Double-sided; two illustrations <br/>per side, with text above
| Condition       =  
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| Script           = [[script::Bastarda]]
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| Script             = [[script::Semigothic]]
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| Exemplar(s)     = [[Flos Duellatorum (Pisani Dossi MS)|Pisani Dossi MS]] (1410)
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| Previously kept =  
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| Discovered       = {{plainlist | [[Ken Mondschein]] (2008) | Fabrice Cognot (2008) }}
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| Discovered         = {{plainlist
| Website         = [http://historicalfencing.org/papers/Mondschein%20-%20Fiore%20description.pdf Ken Mondschein's description]
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| Ken Mondschein (2008)
| Images           = {{plainlist | [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8514426f Digital scans] (3000x4500) | [http://images.bnf.fr/jsp/rechercherListeClichesAvancee.jsp?coteDocumentDemande{{=}}LATIN%2011269 Digital scans] (450x600) }}
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| Fabrice Cognot (2008)
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| Website           = [http://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ead.html?id{{=}}FRBNFEAD000072884 Library catalog entry]
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'''''Florius de Arte Luctandi''''' ("The Flower of Battle", MS Latin 11269) is an [[nationality::Italian]] [[fencing manual]] translated from a treatise authored by [[Fiore de'i Liberi]] and probably created in the 1420s.<ref>The text states that Fiore was deceased by the time it was created.</ref> Any preface it once possessed is missing from the current form of the manuscript, and its current title was added much later in a 17th century hand. It consists of 44 folios with two pairings per page, and is the only copy of Fiore's treatise whose illustrations are fully painted. Unlike the other versions of his work, this manuscript is written entirely in [[Renaissance Latin|Latin]]; its descriptions are cast in couplets and quatrains that closely resemble those of the Pisani Dossi MS. This manuscript is generally referred to as either the '''Florius''' or the '''Paris'''.
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'''''Florius de Arte Luctandi''''' ("The Flower of Battle", MS Latin 11269) is an [[nationality::Italian]] [[fencing manual]] translated from a treatise authored by [[Fiore de'i Liberi]] and probably created in the 1410s or 20s.<ref>Based on dating the art and costume, and the apparent statement on [[Page:MS Latin 11269 44r.jpg|folio 44r]] that Fiore was still alive when it was completed.</ref> The original currently rests in the holdings of the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] in Paris, France. MS Latin 11269 is written in a [[semigothic]] script on parchment in a pasteboard leather binding; the illustrations are inked and painted, with gold leafing on the crowns and garters. This manuscript is generally referred to as either the '''Florius''' or the '''Paris'''.
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Any preface MS Latin 11269 once possessed is missing from the current form of the manuscript, and its current title was added much later in a 17th century hand. It consists of 44 folios with two pairings per page, and is the only copy of Fiore's treatise whose illustrations are fully painted. Unlike the other versions of his work, this manuscript is written entirely in [[Renaissance Latin|Latin]].
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Determining the derivation of this manuscript is difficult. Its descriptions are cast in couplets and quatrains that closely resemble those of the [[Flos Duellatorum (Pisani Dossi MS)|Pisani Dossi version]] (<small>FLPD</small>), though often in a jumbled and semi-coherent fashion. The sequence is comparable to that of the [[Tratt‍ato della sch‍erma (MS M.383)|Morgan version]] (<small>FLM</small>), beginning with mounted fighting and ending with wrestling on foot. The illustrations, though painted, often resemble those of the [[Fior di Battaglia (MS Ludwig XV 13)|Getty version]] (<small>FLG</small>). Finally, in terms of content it contains plays otherwise unique to each of the other three manuscripts.
  
 
== Provenance ==
 
== Provenance ==
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The known provenance of the MS Latin 11269 is:<ref>[[Matt Easton|Easton, Matt]]. ''[http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/fiore/ Fiore dei Liberi - Fior di Battaglia - Flos Duellatorum]''. [[Schola Gladiatoria]]. Retrieved 30 October 2010.</ref>
 
The known provenance of the MS Latin 11269 is:<ref>[[Matt Easton|Easton, Matt]]. ''[http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/fiore/ Fiore dei Liberi - Fior di Battaglia - Flos Duellatorum]''. [[Schola Gladiatoria]]. Retrieved 30 October 2010.</ref>
  
* Written in the early 15th century, probably after the completion of ''[[Flos Duellatorum (Pisani Dossi MS)|Flos Duellatorum]]'' in 1409.
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* Written in the early 15th century, probably after the completion of ''Flos Duellatorum'' in 1409.
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* 1467 - Possibly the Ms. 75 in the catalog of the Biblioteca Estense, in which case the description at the time was "Book on fighting called Florius friuiolen, teaching the form of fencing actions in the duel, cursive lettering, small format, illustrated in many ways on many different pages with letters above the figures, with a white eagle and two crests depicted over the first page, covered in white sheepskin with bosses and one clasp. The number of pages written and unwritten are 58".<ref>''Liber Bellicosus verat. Florius friuiolen. docens for. Actorum dimicandi in duello Litteris cursivis in membranis forma parva figuratus diversis modis in plurimis et diversis cartis cum litteris super figuris cum Aquilla alba et duobus cimerijs pictis super prima carta Cohopert. montanina alba cum Brochis et uno azullo. Cart. inter scriptas et non scriptas. 58''. Quoted from Giulio Bertoni. ''[https://books.google.com/books?&id=yz5FAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA219 La Biblioteca Estense e la coltura ferrarese ai tempi del Duca I (1471-1505)]''. Loescher, 1903.</ref>
 
* ca. 1635 – rebound by a master papermaker who worked at the Puy-moyen mill for Sieur Janssen.
 
* ca. 1635 – rebound by a master papermaker who worked at the Puy-moyen mill for Sieur Janssen.
* before 1727 – in the collection of Louis Phélypeaux, marquis de Phélypeaux. Donated to the Bibliothèque du Roi, where it was labeled ''Florius de Art Luctandi''.
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* before 1712 – in the Pontchartrain library, owned by Louis Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain (1643-1727). Donated to the Bibliothèque du Roi, where it was labeled ''Florius de Art Luctandi''.
* 1712 - present – held by the Bibliothèque du Roi/[[Bibliothèque Nationale de France]].
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* 1712-present – held by the Bibliothèque du Roi/[[Bibliothèque nationale de France]].
  
 
== Contents ==
 
== Contents ==
  
{| class="wikitable treatise"
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{| class="treatise"
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! id="page" | Folio
 
! Section
 
 
 
 
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! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|1v]]
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! id="page" | [[Fiore de'i Liberi|1v]]
| The Seven Swords by Fiore de'i Liberi
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| The Seven Swords by [[Fiore de'i Liberi]]
  
 
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|-  
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|2r - 5v]]
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|2r - 5v]]
| [[Mounted fencing]] by Fiore de'i Liberi
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| [[Mounted fencing]] by [[Fiore de'i Liberi]]
  
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|6r - 6v]]
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|6r - 6v]]
| [[Spear]] vs. cavalry by Fiore de'i Liberi
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| [[Spear]] vs. cavalry by [[Fiore de'i Liberi]]
  
 
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|-  
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|6v - 8v]]
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|6v - 8v]]
| Spear by Fiore de'i Liberi
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| Spear by [[Fiore de'i Liberi]]
  
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|8v - 10r]]
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|8v - 10r]]
| [[Poleaxe]] by Fiore de'i Liberi
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| [[Axe]] in armor by [[Fiore de'i Liberi]]
  
 
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|-  
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|10r - 12r]]
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|10r - 12r]]
| [[Longsword]] in one hand by Fiore de'i Liberi
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| [[Sword]] in one hand by [[Fiore de'i Liberi]]
  
 
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|-
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|12v - 15v]],<br/>[[Fiore de'i Liberi|26r - 30v]]
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|12v - 15v]],<br/>[[Fiore de'i Liberi|26r - 30v]]
| Longsword in two hands by Fiore de'i Liberi
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| Sword in two hands by [[Fiore de'i Liberi]]
  
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|16r - 19v]]
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|16r - 19v]]
| [[Armored fencing]] by Fiore de'i Liberi
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| [[Armored fencing|Sword in armor]] by [[Fiore de'i Liberi]]
  
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|20r - 20v]]
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|20r - 20v]]
| Sword vs. [[dagger]] by Fiore de'i Liberi
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| Sword vs. [[dagger]] by [[Fiore de'i Liberi]]
  
 
|-  
 
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! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|21r - 25v]],<br/>[[Fiore de'i Liberi#Treatise|31r - 38r]],<br/>[[Fiore de'i Liberi#Treatise|43r - 44r]]
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! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|21r - 25v]],<br/>[[Fiore de'i Liberi|31r - 38r]],<br/>[[Fiore de'i Liberi|43r - 44r]]
| Dagger by Fiore de'i Liberi
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| Dagger by [[Fiore de'i Liberi]]
  
 
|-  
 
|-  
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|38v - 42v]]
 
! [[Fiore de'i Liberi|38v - 42v]]
| [[Grappling]] by Fiore de'i Liberi
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| [[Grappling]] by [[Fiore de'i Liberi]]
  
 
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== Gallery ==
 
== Gallery ==
  
Images hosted by the [[Bibliothèque Nationale de France]].
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{{collation}}
 
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Latest revision as of 19:13, 27 October 2023

Florius de Arte Luctandi
MS Latin 11269, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris, France

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Title page, folio Ir
HagedornFLPLeng
WierschinHils
Type
Date ca. 1410s or 20s
Language(s) Renaissance Latin
Author(s) Fiore de'i Liberi
Translator Unknown
Scribe(s) Unknown
Illustrator(s) Unknown
Material Parchment, with a pasteboard
leather cover
Size 44 folia (195 mm × 255 mm)
Format Double-sided; two illustrations
per side, with text above
Script Semigothic
Identified
  • Ken Mondschein (2008)
  • Fabrice Cognot (2008)
External data Library catalog entry
Treatise scans

Florius de Arte Luctandi ("The Flower of Battle", MS Latin 11269) is an Italian fencing manual translated from a treatise authored by Fiore de'i Liberi and probably created in the 1410s or 20s.[1] The original currently rests in the holdings of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, France. MS Latin 11269 is written in a semigothic script on parchment in a pasteboard leather binding; the illustrations are inked and painted, with gold leafing on the crowns and garters. This manuscript is generally referred to as either the Florius or the Paris.

Any preface MS Latin 11269 once possessed is missing from the current form of the manuscript, and its current title was added much later in a 17th century hand. It consists of 44 folios with two pairings per page, and is the only copy of Fiore's treatise whose illustrations are fully painted. Unlike the other versions of his work, this manuscript is written entirely in Latin.

Determining the derivation of this manuscript is difficult. Its descriptions are cast in couplets and quatrains that closely resemble those of the Pisani Dossi version (FLPD), though often in a jumbled and semi-coherent fashion. The sequence is comparable to that of the Morgan version (FLM), beginning with mounted fighting and ending with wrestling on foot. The illustrations, though painted, often resemble those of the Getty version (FLG). Finally, in terms of content it contains plays otherwise unique to each of the other three manuscripts.

Provenance

The known provenance of the MS Latin 11269 is:[2]

  • Written in the early 15th century, probably after the completion of Flos Duellatorum in 1409.
  • 1467 - Possibly the Ms. 75 in the catalog of the Biblioteca Estense, in which case the description at the time was "Book on fighting called Florius friuiolen, teaching the form of fencing actions in the duel, cursive lettering, small format, illustrated in many ways on many different pages with letters above the figures, with a white eagle and two crests depicted over the first page, covered in white sheepskin with bosses and one clasp. The number of pages written and unwritten are 58".[3]
  • ca. 1635 – rebound by a master papermaker who worked at the Puy-moyen mill for Sieur Janssen.
  • before 1712 – in the Pontchartrain library, owned by Louis Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain (1643-1727). Donated to the Bibliothèque du Roi, where it was labeled Florius de Art Luctandi.
  • 1712-present – held by the Bibliothèque du Roi/Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Contents

1v The Seven Swords by Fiore de'i Liberi
2r - 5v Mounted fencing by Fiore de'i Liberi
6r - 6v Spear vs. cavalry by Fiore de'i Liberi
6v - 8v Spear by Fiore de'i Liberi
8v - 10r Axe in armor by Fiore de'i Liberi
10r - 12r Sword in one hand by Fiore de'i Liberi
12v - 15v,
26r - 30v
Sword in two hands by Fiore de'i Liberi
16r - 19v Sword in armor by Fiore de'i Liberi
20r - 20v Sword vs. dagger by Fiore de'i Liberi
21r - 25v,
31r - 38r,
43r - 44r
Dagger by Fiore de'i Liberi
38v - 42v Grappling by Fiore de'i Liberi
44r Closing

Gallery

Front Cover
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Inside Cover
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Folio Ⅰr
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Folio Ⅰv
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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 12r
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Folio 13r
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Folio 16r
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Folio 33r
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Folio 34r
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Folio 35r
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Folio 36r
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Folio 37r
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Folio 38r
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Folio 42r
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Folio 43r
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Folio 44r
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Folio 44v
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Folio Ⅱr
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Folio Ⅱv
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Inside Cover
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Back Cover
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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. Based on dating the art and costume, and the apparent statement on folio 44r that Fiore was still alive when it was completed.
  2. Easton, Matt. Fiore dei Liberi - Fior di Battaglia - Flos Duellatorum. Schola Gladiatoria. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
  3. Liber Bellicosus verat. Florius friuiolen. docens for. Actorum dimicandi in duello Litteris cursivis in membranis forma parva figuratus diversis modis in plurimis et diversis cartis cum litteris super figuris cum Aquilla alba et duobus cimerijs pictis super prima carta Cohopert. montanina alba cum Brochis et uno azullo. Cart. inter scriptas et non scriptas. 58. Quoted from Giulio Bertoni. La Biblioteca Estense e la coltura ferrarese ai tempi del Duca I (1471-1505). Loescher, 1903.

Copyright and License Summary

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

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