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Florius de Arte Luctandi (MS Latin 11269)

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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 4r
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Folio 4v
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Folio 5r
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Folio 5v
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Folio 6r
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Folio 6v
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Folio 7r
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Folio 7v
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Folio 8r
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Folio 8v
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Folio 9r
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Folio 9v
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Folio 10r
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Folio 10v
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Folio 11r
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Folio 11v
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Folio 12r
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Folio 12v
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Folio 13r
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Folio 13v
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Folio 14r
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Folio 14v
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Folio 15r
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Folio 15v
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Folio 16r
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Folio 16v
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Folio 17r
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Folio 17v
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Folio 18r
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Folio 18v
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Folio 19r
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Folio 19v
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Folio 20r
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Folio 20v
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Folio 21r
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Folio 21v
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Folio 22r
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Folio 22v
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Folio 23r
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Folio 23v
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Folio 24r
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Folio 24v
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Folio 25r
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Folio 25v
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Folio 26r
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Folio 26v
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Folio 27r
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Folio 27v
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Folio 28r
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Folio 28v
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Folio 29r
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Folio 29v
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Folio 30r
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Folio 30v
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Folio 31r
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Folio 31v
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Folio 32r
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Folio 32v
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Folio 33r
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Folio 33v
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Folio 34r
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Folio 34v
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Folio 35r
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Folio 35v
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Folio 36r
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Folio 36v
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Folio 37r
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Folio 37v
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Folio 38r
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Folio 38v
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Folio 39r
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Folio 39v
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Folio 40r
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Folio 40v
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Folio 41r
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Folio 41v
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Folio 42r
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Folio 42v
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Folio 43r
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Folio 43v
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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

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

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