De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi (Codex 1324)

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De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi
Codex 1324, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma Rome, Italy
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Hils' catalog	—
Leng's catalog	—
Type	Fencing manual Wrestling manual
Date	between 1482 and 1487
Place of origin	Urbino, Italy (?)
Language(s)	Middle Italian
Scribe(s)	Unknown
Author(s)	Philippo di Vadi
Illustrated by	Unknown
Dedicated to	Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro
Material	Paper, with a leather binding
Size	42 folia
Format	Double-sided; two illustrations per side, with text above
Script	Bastarda
Exemplar(s)	Flos Duellatorum (?) Florius de Arte Luctandi (?)

The Codex 1324, titled De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi ("Of the Art of Swordsmanship"), is an Italian fencing manual by Philippo di Vadi of Pisa, probably created between 1482 and 1487.^[1] The original currently rests in the Vittorio Emmanuele collection of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma in Rome, Italy. The main body of text is largely a redaction of the writings of Fiore de'i Liberi, generally repeating the text of Liberi's Flos Duellatorum; the layout is likewise very similar to that of his later Florius de Arte Luctandi. It seems almost certain that Vadi stood in the tradition of Liberi, or at the very least possessed a copy of his fencing manual. However, this manuscript cannot be written off as a mere plagiarism of Liberi, as it augments his offering with a lengthy, sixteen chapter introduction that illuminates many of the subtleties of Medieval Italian fencing.

Contents 1 Provenance 2 Contents 3 Gallery 4 Additional Resources 5 References

Provenance

The known provenance of the Codex 1324 is:^[2]

• Written between 1482 and 1487. Gifted by Philippo di Vadi to Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro.
• 1480s - 1502 - Held in the Ducal Library at Urbino (disappeared during Cesare Borgia's conquest in that year).
• [Unknown] - Purchased by the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma.

Contents

Folio	Section
1r - 3v	Preface by Philippo di Vadi, based on that of Fiore de'i Liberi
3v - 14v	Treatise on fencing by Philippo di Vadi
15r - 23v	Longsword by Fiore de'i Liberi
24r - 25r	Pole Weapons by Fiore de'i Liberi
26r - 27v	Longsword in Armor by Fiore de'i Liberi
28r - 28v 38r - 38v	Staff Weapons by Fiore de'i Liberi
29r - 37v	Dagger by Fiore de'i Liberi
29r	Grappling by Fiore de'i Liberi
39r - 42v	Dagger by Philippo di Vadi

Gallery

	Front Cover	[Inside Cover] Inside Cover	[Page Ir] Ir	Iv	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 15r	Folio 15v	Folio 16r
Folio 16v	Folio 17r	Folio 17v	Folio 18r	Folio 18v	Folio 19r
Folio 19v	Folio 20r	Folio 20v	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	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	[Inside Cover] Inside Cover
[Back Cover] Back Cover

Additional Resources

• Vadi, Filippo. Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi: 15th Century Swordsmanship of Master Filippo Vadi. Trans. Luca Porzio and Gregory Mele. Union City, CA: Chivalry Bookshelf, 2002. ISBN 1-891448-18-8
• Vadi, Filippo; Rubboli, Marco; and Cesari, Luca. L'arte Cavalleresca del Combattimento. Rome: Il Cerchio Iniziative Editoriali, 2005. ISBN 88-8474-079-7

References