Der Altenn Fechter anfengliche kunst (Christian Egenolff)

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Der Altenn Fechter anfengliche Kunst
The Ancient Fencer's Beginning Art

Title page of the first edition
Author(s) Johannes Lecküchner
Johannes Liechtenauer
Andre Liegniczer
Andre Paurñfeyndt
Unknown
Illustrated by Hans Weiditz
Place of Origin Frankfurt-am-Main
Language Early New High German
Genre(s) Fencing manual
Wrestling manual
Sources Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst
der Fechterey
Publisher Christian Egenolff
Publication Date 1531 - 1537
Pages 94

Der Altenn Fechter anfengliche Kunst ("The Ancient Fencer's Beginning Art") is a German fencing manual printed in the 16th century by Christian Egenolff. A copy of the first edition rests in the holdings of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, Germany; a copy of the 1558 edition rests in the Raymond J. Lord Collection of the University of Massachusetts. The text is largely a redaction of Andre Paurñfeyndt's earlier treatise 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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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 second edition that recently came up for auction was dated to ca. 1535,[1] but this date seems speculative. In 1558, Egenolff's heirs published a fourth edition posthumously.[2]

In the 1600s, a fairly faithful manuscript including portions of both this text and Albrecht Dürer's fencing manual was created by an unknown scribe.

Contents

Page Section
Ir - IIv
IIv - IIIr Twelve Rules for Beginning Fencers by Andre Paurñfeyndt
IIIr - XIIIIr Longsword by Andre Paurñfeyndt
XIIIIv - XVIIIr,
XXIIIr - XXXIr
Messer by Johannes Lecküchner
XVIIIr - XXIIIr Messer by Andre Paurñfeyndt
XXXIrv Sword and buckler by Andre Liegniczer
XXXIv - XXXIIv Dagger by Andre Liegniczer
XXXIIv - XXXVr Anonymous dagger treatise
XXXVv - XLIIIv Anonymous grappling treatise
XLIIIIr - XLVIv Staff by Andre Paurñfeyndt
XLVIIrv Index

Gallery

Additional Resources

References

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