Anweisung zur Fechtkunst (4º MS Math.2)

Anweisung zur Fechtkunst
4º MS Math.2, Universitätsbibliothek Kassel Kassel, Germany
folio 9r
Hagedorn Leng —
Wierschin — Hils —
Type	Fencing manual
Date	ca. 1620
Language(s)	Early New High German
Author(s)	Hans Wilhelm Schöffer von Dietz
Material	Paper, with a leather binding
Size	505 folia
Format	Double-sided; text with frequent illustrations
Script	Blackletter
Exemplar(s)	4º MS Math.038 (ca. 1600)
Identified	Heiko Meckbach, 2011
Treatise scans	Digital scans (1800x1300)

The title of this article contains the characters ů, º and ñ. Where they are unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Gruendtliche vnd eigentlichte Beschreibung der Fechtkunst (4o MS Math.2).

Anweisung zur Fechtkunst ("Instructions for the art of fencing"; 4º MS Math.2) is a German fencing manual written in ca. 1620 by Hans Wilhelm Schöffer von Dietz.^{[citation needed]} The original currently rests in the holdings of the Universitätsbibliothek Kassel in Kassel, Germany. It appears to be the presentation copy of Schöffer's 1620 book Grůndtliche vñ eigentlichte Beschreibung der Fechtkunst.

Contents

9r - 249v	Rapier by Hans Wilhelm Schöffer von Dietz
252r - 500v	Rapier and dagger by Hans Wilhelm Schöffer von Dietz

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