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<p>Consider that when you thrust in front of someone by reaching into your high point, always turn the sword with the pommel below your right armpit.</p>
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<p>Consider that when you thrust after someone by reaching into your high point, always turn the sword with the pommel below your right armpit.</p>
 
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<p>If someone touched the sword to the chest, take his sword with the left hand forward at the point and push your sword behind his left leg. And press your chest against him, and push beyond with your hand over your sword.</p>
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<p>If someone touched the sword to the chest, take his sword with the left hand forward at the point and push your sword behind his left leg. And press your chest against him, and push with your backhand beyond your sword.</p>
 
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<p>When you are in the near guard or if you lead the cuts towards the man, if he pulls his sword crossed in front of him and he wants to fall above you with the arms being raised high, strike below his sword to his chest.</p>
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<p>When you are in the near guard or if you lead the cuts towards the man, if he pulls his sword crossed in front of himself and he wants to fall above you with the arms raised high, strike below his sword to his chest.</p>
 
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<p>Thrust him inside to his face and pass beyond, and thrust him also from the outside to his face. If he defends that, advance with your left foot between his two legs and pass with the pommel beyond his left leg to bend his knee. And raise him up with this pommel, pushing him with your shoulder above. Thus he will fall.</p>
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<p>Thrust in at him towards his face and pass beyond, and thrust him also from the outside to his face. If he defends that, advance with your left foot between his two legs and pass with the pommel beyond his left leg to bend his knee. And raise him up with this pommel, pushing him with your shoulder above. Thus he will fall.</p>
 
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<p>Thrust him in the face and touch him with the sword. If he defends himself, pull back and thrust him to the other side. If he defends this too and drags downward to your ear, advance with your pommel beyond his shoulders around his neck, springing with your right foot behind his left, and make him fall over.</p>
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<p>Thrust in at him towards his face and touch him with the sword. If he defends himself, pull back and thrust him to the other side. If he too defends this and drags downward to your ear, advance with your pommel beyond his shoulders around his neck, springing with your right foot behind his left, and make him fall over.</p>
 
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<p>On the other hand, if you are high on your right side and hold your sword in your right hand and your point in your left and someone thrusts up at you from below, you can shoot through. Then, if you wish, you can displace with your point and clasp their sword to yours and grab them by their neck with your pommel and step behind them. Or, when you have displaced with your point, strike at their knee with the pommel of your sword or reach behind the pit of their knee with your pommel and pull it against you or grab them by their neck with your pommel and pull them down forwards. But, if you have struck and hold your sword in your left hand and your point in your right and they thrust up at you from below, then displace with your pommel and clasp their sword to yours and grab them by their neck with your point and step backwards.</p>
 
<p>On the other hand, if you are high on your right side and hold your sword in your right hand and your point in your left and someone thrusts up at you from below, you can shoot through. Then, if you wish, you can displace with your point and clasp their sword to yours and grab them by their neck with your pommel and step behind them. Or, when you have displaced with your point, strike at their knee with the pommel of your sword or reach behind the pit of their knee with your pommel and pull it against you or grab them by their neck with your pommel and pull them down forwards. But, if you have struck and hold your sword in your left hand and your point in your right and they thrust up at you from below, then displace with your pommel and clasp their sword to yours and grab them by their neck with your point and step backwards.</p>
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<p>If you are high on your right side, if you have the sword on the right hand and the tip on the left, and if he thrusts against you from below, then you can pass beyond. Then if you want, you can place your tip downwards and snap his sword up to your pommel and pull him in. Or when you have put your tip downwards, strike with your pommel towards his knee or move his blade into his neck and pull him down in front of you. And if you have struck having the sword on the left hand and the tip on the right and if he thrusts after you from below, run the pommel down and take his sword to yours and move the tip in his neck and step backwards.</p>
 
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Revision as of 04:46, 14 February 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 French 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. Lit. short knives.
  6. Likely an error. Crombe is a northern Middle French word for “hunched” (e.g. a person) or “crooked”.
  7. literally: cut through agains their strike. The separable durch-hauen means to strike through something to create an opening. See: https://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB2/2DURCHHAUEN
  8. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: er nit kumeñ
  9. the word "hocs" means "hooks", but I believe it is meant to be a loanword for ox instead.
  10. 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
  11. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: so entplest er sich
  12. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: zuck vnd haw mit langer schneid nach
  13. alt: points, ends
  14. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: schwert mit dem knopf vnter dein recht uxñ
  15. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: schon, die stich trucke mit schnitten sy ab czucke
  16. This is the zwerch.
  17. This is the sprechfenster.
  18. Lit. “Pass in change.”
  19. Pflug based on the German.
  20. Likely translating “verkerer” as “bailiff”.
  21. Lit. turned as in “soured” or “embittered”.
  22. Zornhau.
  23. Top cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: yglichs in dreu wunder
  24. Corrected from »lanngem«
  25. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: vmbsunst vrsach halben er mag kain folling straich auff dich habñ
  26. Erreur d'impression?
  27. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: dar uber
  28. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: arm
  29. Rephrasing of Ovid's "Cunctis qui placeat non credo quomodo vivat".
  30. Rephrasing of the proverb from Pliny, "ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret".
  31. Hieronymous Büttner