Codex Wallerstein (Cod.I.6.4°.2)

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Codex Wallerstein
Codex I.6.4°.2, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg Augsburg, Germany
Hils' catalog	2
Leng's catalog	38.9.1
Also known as	Von Bauman's Fechtbuch
Type	Fencing manual Wrestling manual
Date	ca. 1400/1470s
Place of origin	Nuremberg, Germany
Language(s)	Early New High German
Author(s)	Unknown
Compiled by	Paulus Hector Mair (1556)
Illustrated by	Unknown
Material	Paper, with a modern binding
Size	110 folia
Format	Double-sided; one illustration per side, typically with text above
Script	Bastarda
External link	Museum data sheet

Codex Wallerstein (or Codex I.6.4°.2) is a German fencing manual compiled by Paulus Hector Mair in 1556.^[1]. The original currently rests in the holdings of the Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg in Augsburg, Germany. It consists of at least three distinct treatises, based on the art style and the handwriting; the first two sections likely date to the 1470s, while the third is much older, from perhaps around 1400.^{[citation needed]} The title "Vom Baumans Fechtbuch" appears at the beginning of the first treatise, perhaps indicating that Michael von Baumann owned the treatise, along with the date 1549. The first two sections seem to have been used by Albrecht Dürer as a reference for his fencing manual.^[2]

Codex Wallerstein is interesting in that its teachings do not seem to fall into the tradition of the grand master Johannes Liechtenauer. Part A, which treats longsword, messer, and dagger, and Part B, which treats grappling, are the first entries in a series of manuscripts known as the Nuremberg group, which originate from that area and seem to document the same martial tradition. Part C, on the other hand, is the first entry in a complex of treatises known as pseudo-Gladiatoria due to the fact that Hils originally ascribed it to the Gladiatoria group^{[citation needed]} (another tradition not dependent on Liechtenauer). Pseudo-Gladiatoria covers the same sorts of dueling as the Gladiatoria group, but the differences are too extensive to consider them the same tradition.

Contents 1 Provenance 2 Contents 3 Gallery 3.1 Part A 3.2 Part B 3.3 Part C 4 Additional Resources 5 References

Provenance

Contents

Folio	Section
	Front Matter English Translation by Michael Chidester Transcription by Dieter Bachmann 1549 Vom Bauman's Fechtbuch [Inside cover] 1549 Vom Baumans Fechtbuch Came into Paulus Hector Mair's collection on 26 January 1556. [1r] uber khumben im 1556 jar am 26 januari Paulus Hector Mair zugehorig
3r - 14v, 21r - 21v	Longsword teachings from the Nuremberg tradition
22r - 28v	Dagger teachings from the Nuremberg tradition
29r - 32v	Messer teachings from the Nuremberg tradition
15r - 20v, 33r - 73v	Grappling teachings from the Nuremberg tradition
76r - 80v, 101r - 102v	Longsword from Pseudo-Gladiatoria
81r - 95v, 103r - 108r	Armored Fencing from Pseudo-Gladiatoria
96r - 98v	Longshield from Pseudo-Gladiatoria
98v - 100v	Grappling from Pseudo-Gladiatoria
109r	Index by Paulus Hector Mair English Translation Transcription Dieter Bachmann Im Langen schwert der stent stendt item als -- 36 der ringen item als bar stent -- 95 Im dolchen item als bar stent -- 14 Im dusseckhen stent bar stent -- 8 Im Khampf zu fusz aber alerley stent -- 51 Mer 7 bar stent im ringen -- 7 Mer 5 bar stent im langen schwert -- 5

Gallery

Images hosted by the Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg. Note that parts A and B are nested together in the current configuration of the manuscript.

Part A

	Front Cover	Inside Cover	Folio 1r	Folio 1v	Folio 2r
Folio 2v	Folio 3r	Folio 3v	Folio 4r	Folio 4v	Folio 5r
Folio 5v	Folio 6r	Folio 6v	Folio 7r	Folio 7v	Folio 8r
Folio 8v	Folio 9r	Folio 9v	Folio 10r	Folio 10v	Folio 11r
Folio 11v	Folio 12r	Folio 12v	Folio 13r	Folio 13v	Folio 14r
Folio 14v	Folio 21r	Folio 21v	Folio 22r	Folio 22v	Folio 23r
Folio 23v	Folio 24r	Folio 24v	Folio 25r	Folio 25v	Folio 26r
Folio 26v	Folio 27r	Folio 27v	Folio 28r	Folio 28v	Folio 29r
Folio 29v	Folio 30r	Folio 30v	Folio 31r	Folio 31v	Folio 32r
Folio 32v

Part B

	Folio 15r	Folio 15v	Folio 16r	Folio 16v	Folio 17r
Folio 17v	Folio 18r	Folio 18v	Folio 19r	Folio 19v	Folio 20r
Folio 20v	Folio 33r	Folio 33v	Folio 34r	Folio 34v	Folio 35r
Folio 35v	Folio 36r	Folio 36v	Folio 37r	Folio 37v	Folio 38r
Folio 38v	Folio 39r	Folio 39v	Folio 40r	Folio 40v	Folio 41r
Folio 41v	Folio 42r	Folio 42v	Folio 43r	Folio 43v	Folio 44r
Folio 44v	Folio 45r	Folio 45v	Folio 46r	Folio 46v	Folio 47r
Folio 47v	Folio 48r	Folio 48v	Folio 49r	Folio 49v	Folio 50r
Folio 50v	Folio 51r	Folio 51v	Folio 52r	Folio 52v	Folio 53r
Folio 53v	Folio 54r	Folio 54v	Folio 55r	Folio 55v	Folio 56r
Folio 56v	Folio 57r	Folio 57v	Folio 58r	Folio 58v	Folio 59r
Folio 59v	Folio 60r	Folio 60v	Folio 61r	Folio 61v	Folio 62r
Folio 62v	Folio 63r	Folio 63v	Folio 64r	Folio 64v	Folio 65r
Folio 65v	Folio 66r	Folio 66v	Folio 67r	Folio 67v	Folio 68r
Folio 68v	Folio 69r	Folio 69v	Folio 70r	Folio 70v	Folio 71r
Folio 71v	Folio 72r	Folio 72v	Folio 73r	Folio 73v	Folio 74r
Folio 74v	Folio 75r

Part C

Folio 75v	Folio 76r	Folio 76v	Folio 77r	Folio 77v	Folio 78r
Folio 78v	Folio 79r	Folio 79v	Folio 80r	Folio 80v	Folio 81r
Folio 81v	Folio 82r	Folio 82v	Folio 83r	Folio 83v	Folio 84r
Folio 84v	Folio 85r	Folio 85v	Folio 86r	Folio 86v	Folio 87r
Folio 87v	Folio 88r	Folio 88v	Folio 89r	Folio 89v	Folio 90r
Folio 90v	Folio 91r	Folio 91v	Folio 92r	Folio 92v	Folio 93r
Folio 93v	Folio 94r	Folio 94v	Folio 95r	Folio 95v	Folio 96r
Folio 96v	Folio 97r	Folio 97v	Folio 98r	Folio 98v	Folio 99r
Folio 99v	Folio 100r	Folio 100v	Folio 101r	Folio 101v	Folio 102r
Folio 102v	Folio 103r	Folio 103v	Folio 104r	Folio 104v	Folio 105r
Folio 105v	Folio 106r	Folio 106v	Folio 107r	Folio 107v	Folio 108r
Folio 108v	Folio 109r	Folio 109v	Folio 110r	Folio 110v	Inside Cover
Back Cover

Additional Resources

• Dörnhöffer, Friedrich. Albrecht Dürers Fechtbuch. Vienna: F. Tempsky, 1909.
• Dürer, Albrecht and Wassmannsdorff, Karl. Die Ringkunst des deutschen Mittelalters. Liepzig: Priber, 1870.
• Żabiński, Grzegorz and Walczak, Bartłomiej. Codex Wallerstein: A Medieval Fighting Book from the Fifteenth Century on the Longsword, Falchion, Dagger, and Wrestling. Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 2002. ISBN 978-1-58160-585-3

References