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| <p>[6] '''Crown ct'''</p>
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| <p>[6] '''Crown cut'''</p>
  
 
<p>Step and strike through to the opponent's ear from above with the long edge. The second step and strike down from above to the right ear with the short edge. The third, strike from behind with the long edge.</p>
 
<p>Step and strike through to the opponent's ear from above with the long edge. The second step and strike down from above to the right ear with the short edge. The third, strike from behind with the long edge.</p>
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| <p>[22] '''About parrying'''</p>
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| Four are the parries<br/>&emsp;That severly disrupt the positions
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| Guard yourself from parrying<br/>&emsp;If it happens by necessity, it hurts you
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| If you are parried,<br/>&emsp;Note as it happens.
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| Heed what I advise:<br/>&emsp;Break loose quickly, cut with violence.
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| <small>74</small>
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| Lodge against four regions<br/>&emsp;Learn to remain upon them if you wish to finish.
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| <p>[23] The second resting place is named the hanging point and is dual.</p>
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| Crook up swiftly<br/>&emsp;Throw the point onto the hands
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| Crook. Whoever parries well<br/>&emsp;Disrupts many cuts with stepping.
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| Cut crooked to the flats<br/>&emsp;Of the masters if you wish to weaken them
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| When it sparks above<br/>&emsp;Then dismount, that I will praise
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| Don't crook, short cut<br/>&emsp;With that, look for the disengage.
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| Crook whoever tricks you<br/>&emsp;The noble war bewilders them
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| Such that they do not truthfully know<br/>&emsp;Where they are without danger.
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<p>Hanging point puts the right foot forward like in the figure, and is with the flat facing down, this works quick and high, and displaces those strikes which come from the Roof, quickly sink the running off, and work after with the long strike.</p>
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<p>The hanging point lands with the right foot forwards, like in the figure, with the flat below the face, entering short; and parry high whatever strike that will be struck from the roof. Let it run off short and follow up with a strike long.</p>
 
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| <p>[25] '''Break'''</p>
 
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<p>Work from the right hand, with the right foot forward, if he continues to lay in the hanging point, put the short edge on his right ear, so that he may not pull away, where he then however will pull away, thus he opens himself.</p>
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<p>Drive the right foot forwards from the right side. If someone lies still in the hanging point, position the short edge on their right ear so they are not permitted to suddenly withdraw and wherever they do withdraw, they uncover themselves.</p>
 
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<p>When one lays his short edge on your neck, turn your hands with the sword under him from above, with the long edge, and grab on to his pommel with your left hand, throw him to the left side over his sword.</p>
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<p>Whenever someone positions the short edge against your neck, twist your hands with your sword and bar them from above with the long edge and grab their pommel with your left hand and throw them over their sword to the left side.</p>
 
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Revision as of 19:33, 2 January 2022

Andre Paurenfeyndt
Born 15th century
Died 16th century
Occupation
Nationality German
Patron Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg
Movement Liechtenauer Tradition
Influences Johannes Liechtenauer
Influenced
Genres
Language Early New High German
Notable work(s) Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der
Fechterey
(1516)
Manuscript(s)
Concordance by Michael Chidester
Translations Deutsch-Übersetzung

Andre Paurenfeyndt (Paurñfeyndt, Paurñfeindt) was a 16th century German Freifechter. He seems to have been a resident of Vienna, although he mentions in his introduction that he served as a bodyguard to Cardinal Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (1468 - 1540).[1] In 1516, he wrote and published a fencing manual entitled Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey ("Founding of the Chivalric Art of Swordplay"), which Sydney Anglo notes may have been the first illustrated fencing treatise ever published.[2] Little else is known about the life of this master, but he describes himself as a Freifechter and the contents of his book make it clear that he was associated with the tradition of Johannes Liechtenauer. His treatise diverges significantly from the earlier teachings of the Liechtenauer tradition, which may be due to his stated purpose of writing for beginning fencers.

Treatise

Please note that only the first edition (1516) has the complete set of illustrations, and all later versions are disorganized and incomplete; this article follows the order of plays and illustrations laid out in the original, and the variant sequences can be viewed on the transcription pages. Egenolff's illustrations are rather different from Paurenfeyndt's, and smaller thumbnails are included where applicable. Furthermore, the illustrations on pages 57 and 59 of the 1516 don't seem to relate to the plays described on 58 and 60, since they show pairs of fencers with dussacks while the text indicates that one of them should be unarmed. They are included here for reference, but the Egenolff illustrations (which are original and not based on Paurenfeyndt) are the ones that seem to depict something similar to the plays as described. While the Twelve Rules for the Beginning Fencer are unillustrated in Paurenfeyndt's work, this presentation includes the illustrations for six of the twelve found in the MS B.200 (1524).

Rather than presenting the treatise transcriptions chronologically, this concordance groups the three complete German texts together (including Lienhart Sollinger's 1564 copy), followed by the 1538 Walloon translation. There are three shorter manuscript fragments of the German text, and these have been added in additional columns on the far end of the table in only the sections where they appear.

Additional Resources

  • Bauer, Matthias Johannes. “Der Alten Fechter gründtliche Kunst” – Das Frankfurter oder Egenolffsche Fechtbuch. Untersuchung und Edition. Coll. Geschichtswissenschaften 37. München: Utz Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978-3-8316-4559-6
  • Bauer, Matthias Johannes. "Economising Early Prints on Fight Books by Multiple Using Movable Half Page Woodcuts". Acta Periodica Duellatorum 4(2): 99–116, 2016. doi:10.36950/apd-2016-015
  • Bergner, U. and Giessauf, J. Würgegriff und Mordschlag. Die Fecht- und Ringlehre des Hans Czynner (1538). Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2006. ISBN 978-3-201-01855-5
  • Roelofsen, Mathijs. "La Noble Science des Joueurs d’Espée: Fight Book and Commercial Product". Acta Periodica Duellatorum 8(1): 73-88, 2020. doi:10.36950/apd-2020-005
  • Welle, Rainer. "Ein unvollendetes Meisterwerk der Fecht- und Ringkampfliteratur des 16. Jahrhunderts sucht seinen Autor: der Landshuter Holzschneider und Maler Georg Lemberger als Fecht- und Ringbuchillustrator?" Codices manuscripti & impressi. Supplementum 12. Purkersdorf: Verlag Brüder Hollinek, 2017.

References

  1. Ott, Michael. "Matthew Lang." The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.
  2. Anglo, Sydney. The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. p 46. ISBN 978-0-300-08352-1
  3. lit: foot, but can and often mean the leg
  4. alt: flesh wounds, tag hits.
  5. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: er nit kumeñ
  6. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: Wan dir ainer die kurcz schneid vberscheust so wendt den straich ab, so kumpt dir straich wider straich, vnd gleiche arbait
  7. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: so entplest er sich
  8. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: zuck vnd haw mit langer schneid nach
  9. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: schwert mit dem knopf vnter dein recht uxñ
  10. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: schon, die stich trucke mit schnitten sy ab czucke
  11. Top cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: yglichs in dreu wunder
  12. Corrected from »lanngem«
  13. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: vmbsunst vrsach halben er mag kain folling straich auff dich habñ
  14. Erreur d'impression?
  15. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: dar uber
  16. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: arm