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+ | ! <p>Transcription <span style="font-weight:normal; font-size:85%;">[[[Index:Goliath (MS Germ.Quart.2020)|edit]]]</span><br/>by [[Bartłomiej Walczak]]</p> | ||
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+ | 40 drawings on the long sword | ||
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+ | 17 ditto for dagger | ||
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+ | 29 ditto for wrestling on foot | ||
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+ | 52 ditto in armour on horse and on foot | ||
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− | ! | + | ! <p>Transcription <span style="font-weight:normal; font-size:85%;">[[[Index:Goliath (MS Germ.Quart.2020)|edit]]]</span><br/>by [[Bartłomiej Walczak]]</p> |
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− | + | '''A Stepping Move and an Arm Break''' | |
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+ | Your opponent took a swipe with his dagger at your face. So, with an inverted right hand, continue to follow through to the dagger. During your opponent's swing, grab just under the wrist. From your left side, grasp his right elbow with your left hand, and be careful that your right hand, which stabilized his, doesn't cross over to your left side. Then, step with your left foot in front of his back foot, so you can still maintain control, and capture the dagger by bringing in your arm. | ||
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− | + | '''An Arm Break and a Stepping Move''' | |
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+ | Your opponent tried to stab your face. Grab high with your inverted left hand, while securing his dagger just under the wrist. With your right hand grab from under his right elbow, and push away from you. With your left hand, bring down your opponent's hand to your left side, while at the same time step deep with your left foot behind the opponent's foot so you can maintain control as you bring in your arm. | ||
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− | + | '''Breaking the Arm''' | |
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+ | Your opponent bore down on you while grabbing your collar. Grab his left wrist with your left hand. With your right arm, drive into his left elbow joint, and push through (that is, with your arm) toward the ground, and step in with your entire right side as you push. Snatch the hand that's holding the dagger with your right, while still driving down into his elbow--like this: | ||
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− | + | '''How to Singly Control His Stab from Above''' | |
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+ | Your opponent tried to lift you by the collar, and stab you from above. Grab it with an inverted grip of your right hand just underneath his dagger. Then, lift the arm high and upwards, while stepping in with your right foot behind his foot. See Illustration: then drive in over his back, and shove off his left arm with your right shoulder. | ||
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− | + | '''A Hold as He Grabs the Collar from Behind''' | |
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+ | Your opponent swiped from above with dagger in hand. Immediately, with an inverted right hand grab, firmly grasp and lift up his dagger, and lower yourself while lifting high, as you step deep with your right foot behind his left foot. See Illustration: you can throw him to the ground, while at the same time pushing off the arm grasping your collar with your right shoulder. | ||
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− | + | '''Capturing the dagger''' | |
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+ | Lift your blade over and after the front of the swinging dagger. Then with your dagger twist the blade and take it. While taking in your wrist over his right arm, take in his dagger . See illustration: capture the dagger by driving yourself through. | ||
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− | + | '''Regarding a Stab''' | |
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+ | Your opponent took a swipe at your face. So take up with an inverted grab: grab your right arm with your left hand, which is inverted at the top and under his right arm, and press on hard and back, while stepping with your right foot in and behind. See illustration: bring your opponent's arm in towards yourself--this will cause a break in the arm. | ||
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− | + | '''Breaking the Wrist''' | |
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+ | Your opponent swiped from above at your face. So while inverting your hand, block with your dagger underneath his right hand. With your left hand grab on through to your right arm and grab your blade. See illustration: yank strongly towards yourself, in order to put pressure on the arm. | ||
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− | + | '''Regarding a Stab and a Break of the Arm''' | |
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+ | Your opponent took a swipe from above to the face. With an inverted hold take in with your left hand underneath and behind his blade; push the arm while taking up. See illustration: while maintaining the hold behind the front of the blade, swing your dagger over his right arm, and draw in hard to yourself, so you can break the arm. | ||
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− | + | '''Regarding a Stab''' | |
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+ | Your opponent really likes to attack at your front. So seize your dagger, precisely under the fighting hand, and go high underneath his blade, and take in with your dagger's knob (Schwertknauf)*. Otherwise swish over his arm; when you have it restrained there in this way, you can poke his dagger in his face. Take in the dagger. | ||
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− | + | '''Regarding a Stab''' | |
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+ | Your opponent strongly struck from above at your face. When this happens grab the blade (that is, of your fighting hand), and strongly go in with it, and shift the dagger over and behind his head. See illustration: draw in strongly from behind him toward the ground. | ||
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− | + | '''A Stab''' | |
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+ | Your opponent swiped toward your gut. Block vertically with the blade, and step in. Drive on in and behind him, and swing downwards while sliding your dagger along his dagger. Bring your arm from behind; from under, grab the neck and pull, and take in the dagger. | ||
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− | + | '''Regarding a Stab''' | |
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− | | | + | Your opponent took a swipe at your face, so block it with your inverted hand, and break off the attack. Stick the dagger underneath his right leg and strongly push through. Lift toward the back, and take in the dagger. |
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− | + | After the break, while pretending to be resting, your opponent tried to stab you from underneath. Set yourself low at stomach level, and block with your inverted left hand just above the wrist. Swing in with your right hand with your dagger, strike his right elbow, and yank in hard on him when you restrain his arm. Take in the dagger which will break the arm. Drive on in, and hit his mouth with your dagger. | |
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− | + | Your opponent struck at you with a strong reverse stab from underneath the gut. Grab your dagger (to be precise, the blade of the fighting hand), and drop in vertically along his dagger. See illustration: take in with the blade or dagger's knob (Schwertknauf); go, and seize it by stepping behind him so you can drive in while shoving his dagger with a quick thrust. | |
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− | + | Your opponent tried to stab you in the gut. Block his dagger (to be precise, the fighting hand dagger) with yours. Then press in (with the dagger you have in your right hand) quickly, drive onto his right hand by the wrist, and catch his dagger with yours. Continue to press in with that hand and support it with your abdomen. Using your left hand, yank his lower arm toward yourself. | |
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Goliath | |||||
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MS Germ.Quart.2020, Biblioteka Jagiellońska Kraków, Poland | |||||
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Also known as | MS 5879 | ||||
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Date | 1510 - 1520 | ||||
Place of origin | Southern Germany | ||||
Language(s) | Early New High German | ||||
Author(s) | |||||
Compiler | Unknown | ||||
Illustrator(s) | Unknown | ||||
Patron | Maximilian I (?) | ||||
Material | Paper, with a modern leather binding | ||||
Size | 285 folia | ||||
Format | Double-sided; text with occasional illustrations | ||||
Script | Black Letter | ||||
Identified | Hans-Peter Hils (1983) | ||||
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The Goliath Fechtbuch (MS German Quarto 2020) is a German fencing manual created between 1510 and 1520.[1] The original currently rests in the holdings of the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków, Poland. Zabinski speculates based on a number of factors that it was commissioned for Maximilian I (1459-1519), a well-known aficionado of military texts.[2] The manuscript appears to have at least three different scribes, but uses a single artist throughout.[3] It is often nicknamed "Goliath" due to the depiction of the biblical confrontation between David and the giant Goliath on the inside cover. The reason for the inclusion of this painting is entirely unclear, but it may be an allusion to the size of the longswords depicted in the illustrations of unarmored fencing.
Goliath is a compilation text consisting of treatises on a variety of martial topics by several different masters, most of whom who stood in the tradition of the grand master Johannes Liechtenauer. The first several sections include elaborately painted illustrations, but the images cease abruptly toward the beginning of the section on armored fencing, with the final few illustrations being merely rough line drawings. This in addition to the presence of blank spaces through the rest of the manuscript seems to suggest that additional illustrations were planned but never completed (perhaps due to the emperor's death).
Provenance
The known provenance of the MS German Quarto 2020 is:
- Written between 1510 and 1520 in southern Germany, possibly commissioned by Maximilian I or a member of the Imperial court.
- before 1564 – partially copied by Lienhart Sollinger into a manuscript included in the Codex I.6.2º.2.
- before 1923 – owned by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1817) and Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815-1887). The terms of ownership of both men are unknown.
- 1923-1938 – held by Fischer gallery in Luzern, Germany (donated to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 1938). Offered to Robert Lyons Scott in 1935, but no sale took place.
- 1938-after 1985 – held by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in Berlin, Germany, classified MS 5879.
- after 1985 – held by the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków, Poland.
Contents
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1r - 7r | Epitome by Johannes Liechtenauer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7v - 73v | Gloss of Liechtenauer's Bloßfechten by Pseudo-Peter von Danzig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
75r - 86r | Pole weapons by Andre Paurñfeyndt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
89r - 97v | Anonymous dagger devices
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98r - 102v | Dagger by Andre Liegniczer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
103r - 110v | Dagger by Martin Huntfeltz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
111r - 128r, 157v - 159r |
Anonymous grappling devices | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
130v - 147v | Grappling by Ott Jud | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
148r - 157r | Grappling by Andre Liegniczer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
163r - 192r | Gloss of Liechtenauer's Roßfechten by Pseudo-Peter von Danzig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
192v - 196r | Mounted fencing by Martin Huntfeltz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
199r - 251v | Gloss of Liechtenauer's Kampffechten by Pseudo-Peter von Danzig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
252r - 271v | Armored fencing by Andre Liegniczer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
272r - 281v | Armored fencing by Martin Huntfeltz |
Gallery
Images hosted on Wiktenauer with permission from the Biblioteka Jagiellońska.
Additional Resources
- Żabiński, Grzegorz. The Longsword Teachings of Master Liechtenauer. The Early Sixteenth Century Swordsmanship Comments in the "Goliath" Manuscript. Poland: Adam Marshall, 2010. ISBN 978-83-7611-662-4
References
- ↑ Internally dated "1510 - 1520" on the inside cover.
- ↑ Zabinski, pp 83-91.
- ↑ Zabinski, p 66.