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| name                 = [[name::Antonius Rast]]
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| birthdate            = ca. 1470s
| birthplace           = Nuremberg, Germany (?)
| deathdate            = 1549
| deathplace           = Augsburg, Germany (?)
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 | [[Fencing master]]{{#set:occupation=Fencing master}}
 | [[occupation::Sword polisher]]
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| genre                = [[Fencing manual]]
| subject              = 
| movement             = [[Marxbrüder]]
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| archetype            = Currently lost (1540s)
| manuscript(s)        = {{collapsible list
 | [[Rast Fechtbuch (Reichsstadt "Schätze" Nr. 82)|Reichsstadt "Schätze" Nr. 82]] (1553)
 | [[Reit und Turnierbuch (MS KK5247)|MS KK5247]] (ca. 1600)
 | [[Confectbuch von Abrichtung vollständiges Turnierbuch (Cod.Guelf.1.6.3 Aug.2º)|Cod.Guelf.1.6.3 Aug.2º]] (ca. 1600)
 | [[Unterschiedliche die Dressur und Aufzäumung der Pferde erläuternde Zeichnungen (Cod.Guelf.79.2 Aug.2º)|Cod.Guelf.79.2 Aug.2º]] (ca. 1600)
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| influenced           = [[Paulus Hector Mair]]
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'''Antonius Rast''' (ca. 1470s - 1549) was a [[century::16th century]] [[nationality::German]] [[fencing master]] and Captain of the [[Marxbrüder]] fencing guild from 1522 to 1523. [[Paulus Hector Mair]] is the primary source of information about his life, noting that Rast was a professional sword polisher as well as a certified 'Master of the Long Sword'. He began work on a [[fencing manual]] later in his life, but didn't complete it before his death in 1549; Mair purchased the manuscript in 1552 and created a [[Rast Fechtbuch (Reichsstadt "Schätze" Nr. 82)|completed version]] in 1553.

Other than Mair's notes, there are no certain records of Rast's life. The chronicle of the Marxbrüder guild found in the [[Hans Medel Fechtbuch (Cod.I.6.2º.5)|Codex I.6.2º.5]] mentions that an 'Anthoni Resch' was made Captain in 1522, and includes an 'Anthoni Rasch' in a list of Masters of the Long Sword in 1534. Both of these are presumed to be references to Rast, as they correspond well with Mair's account and texts from this time period have frequent misspellings, but this is by no means certain.

Rast's writings are consistent with the complex of manuals known as the [[Nuremberg Group]], but since Paulus Hector Mair had access to the [[Codex Wallerstein (Cod.I.6.4º.2)|Codex Wallerstein]] when finishing Rast's treatise, it's difficult to make any statements about the nature of Rast's own teachings.

== Treatise ==

The version of Rast's writings prepared by Mair includes sections on armored foot combat, unarmored staff fencing, and mounted combat, none of which appear in earlier sources and which may have been composed by Rast himself. However, a version of the mounted fencing material is included in the 1590s manuscripts of [[Jeremias Schemel von Augsburg]], intermingled with those of [[Jörg Wilhalm Hutter]]; Schemel's manuscripts omit two of Rast's plays, but include captions for the devices on ff 78v-80r which are uncaptioned in Rast. Furthermore, several of them were reproduced in the German translation of [[Federico Grison]]'s treatise on horsemanship printed in Augsburg in 1570. This may indicate that Rast was drawing on an earlier, unknown source for the mounted material, or even for all three of these sections. 

That said, until such a source can be identified, all of the known versions will be compiled on this page.

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! <p>[[Rast Fechtbuch (Reichsstadt "Schätze" Nr. 82)|Augsburg Version]]{{edit index|Rast Fechtbuch (Reichsstadt "Schätze" Nr. 82)}} (1553)<br/>by [[Werner Ueberschär]]</p>


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! <p>[[Rast Fechtbuch (Reichsstadt "Schätze" Nr. 82)|Augsburg Version]]{{edit index|Rast Fechtbuch (Reichsstadt "Schätze" Nr. 82)}} (1553)<br/>by [[Werner Ueberschär]]</p>

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| <p>[1] Mark, one  binds you with the staff, then remain firmly standing  in the feeling, and go meanwhile and wind in above over his staff on the neck, as here depicted stands, and go fast in that he may not come to work.</p>
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| <p>[2] Mark, then one binds-on you above, and you feel that he will wind above over on the neck, then step quickly forwards with the left foot and strike his point away with your left point, as here depicted stands, and thrust the same point in his face.</p>
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| <p>[3] Mark, then you will wind one above, and he strikes your point away, then let your left hand drive from the staff, and let the staff go around, then you strike him on the head, as here depicted stands.</p>
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| <p>[4] Mark, one binds you above in long, then throw your staff and come in with the left point, and meanwhile go and grasp his staff in your hand, and wind through him, as here depicted stands.</p>
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| <p>[5] Mark, one binds on you above strongly, and will force you over with strength, then grasp his staff quickly to yours and clamp his fingers, and wind the staff in quickly on his neck. Wind, step behind him, as here depicted stands, then you throw him on the back.</p>
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| <p>[8] Mark, one binds on you very strongly and runs in on you, so run meanwhile with your head through, as stands described in the sword.</p>

<p>''End the 8 standings in staff''</p>
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[barely legible] Enndt der 8 stennd jm stenglin

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! <p>[[Rast Fechtbuch (Reichsstadt "Schätze" Nr. 82)|Augsburg Version]]{{edit index|Rast Fechtbuch (Reichsstadt "Schätze" Nr. 82)}} (1553)<br/>by [[Werner Ueberschär]]</p>
! <p>[[Reit und Turnierbuch (MS KK5247)|Vienna Transcription]]{{edit index|Reit und Turnierbuch (MS KK5247)}} (ca. 1600)</p>
! <p>[[Confectbuch von Abrichtung vollständiges Turnierbuch (Cod.Guelf.1.6.3 Aug.2º)|Wolfenbüttel I Transcription]]{{edit index|Confectbuch von Abrichtung vollständiges Turnierbuch (Cod.Guelf.1.6.3 Aug.2º)}} (ca. 1600)</p>
! <p>[[Unterschiedliche die Dressur und Aufzäumung der Pferde erläuternde Zeichnungen (Cod.Guelf.79.2 Aug.2º)|Wolfenbüttel II Transcription]]{{edit index|Unterschiedliche die Dressur und Aufzäumung der Pferde erläuternde Zeichnungen (Cod.Guelf.79.2 Aug.2º)}} (ca. 1600)</p>
! <p>[[Reit und Turnierbuch (MS 23.279)|New York Transcription]]{{edit index|Reit und Turnierbuch (MS 23.279)}} (1838)<br/></p>

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