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| − | | Index number = [[WI::—]] | + | | Hagedorn's catalog = [[HS::LF]] |
| | | Wierschin's catalog= [[WC::09|9]] | | | Wierschin's catalog= [[WC::09|9]] |
| | | Hils' catalog = [[HK::30]] | | | Hils' catalog = [[HK::30]] |
| − | | Beck catalog = [[BC::38.9.8]] | + | | Beck catalog = [http://kdih.badw.de/datenbank/handschrift/38/9/8 38.9.8] {{#set:BC=38.9.8}} |
| | | Also known as = {{plainlist | | | Also known as = {{plainlist |
| − | | ''Liber de Arte Dimicatoria'' | + | | MS Ⅰ.33 |
| | + | | ''[[title::Liber de Arte Dimicatoria]]'' |
| | | "The Tower Fechtbuch" | | | "The Tower Fechtbuch" |
| − | | No.14.E.iii; No.20 | + | | No.14.E.ⅲ; No.20 |
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| | | Type = [[type::Fencing manual]] | | | Type = [[type::Fencing manual]] |
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| | | Language(s) = [[language::Medieval Latin]] | | | Language(s) = [[language::Medieval Latin]] |
| | | Scribe(s) = Unknown (three hands) | | | Scribe(s) = Unknown (three hands) |
| − | | Ascribed to = Clerus Lutegerus{{#set:author=Lutegerus}} | + | | Ascribed to = Clericus Lutegerus |
| | | Compiled by = | | | Compiled by = |
| | | Illuminated by = Unknown (up to 17 artists) | | | Illuminated by = Unknown (up to 17 artists) |
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| − | | Material = Parchment, in a modern <br/>binding | + | | Material = Parchment, in a modern binding |
| − | | Size = 34 [[folia]] (300 mm x 230 mm) | + | | Size = 32 [[folia]] (230 mm × 300 mm) |
| − | | Format = Double-sided; two illustrations <br/>per side with text above and <br/>below | + | | Format = Double-sided; two illustrations per side <br/>with text above and below |
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| | | Previously kept = MS Membr.I 115,<br/>[[Forschungsbibliothek Gotha|Schloß Friedenstein]] | | | Previously kept = MS Membr.I 115,<br/>[[Forschungsbibliothek Gotha|Schloß Friedenstein]] |
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| − | | Website = | + | | Website = [https://collections.royalarmouries.org/archive/rac-archive-391002.html Museum catalog entry] |
| | | Images = {{collapsible list | | | Images = {{collapsible list |
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| | | [[Media:Royal Armouries Ms. I.33 - ca. 1320s - OGL v3.0.pdf|Digital scans]] (1500x2000) | | | [[Media:Royal Armouries Ms. I.33 - ca. 1320s - OGL v3.0.pdf|Digital scans]] (1500x2000) |
| | | [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Royal_Armouries_Ms._I.33 Digital scans] (600x800) | | | [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Royal_Armouries_Ms._I.33 Digital scans] (600x800) |
| | | [http://www.thearma.org/Manuals/i33/i33.htm Microfilm scans] | | | [http://www.thearma.org/Manuals/i33/i33.htm Microfilm scans] |
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| − | | {{english translation|https://hemastudy.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/new-translation-of-ms-i-33/}}
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| − | | {{german translation|http://schwertfechten.ch/html/i33/|1}}
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| − | | {{italian translation|http://www.compaquila.com/manuali/I-33.pdf|1}}
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| + | '''FECHT 1''' (formerly cataloged as MS Ⅰ.33, sometimes called the Walpurgis ''Fechtbuch'', the Lutegerus ''Fechtbuch'', or the Tower ''Fechtbuch'') is a [[nationality::German]] [[fencing manual]] dating to the 1320s.<ref>The manuscript has received a wide variety of dates. Anglo (1988) dated it to "the very end of the 13th century" and Hils (1985) to the early 14th century; Cinato and Surprenant (2009) are even less precise, placing it at around the turn of the 14th century. Most recent analysis has preferred the very late end of this range, with Leng (2008) dating it to 1320-1330 and Hester (2012) to "around 1320".</ref> It currently rests in the holdings of the [[Royal Armouries]] at Leeds, United Kingdom. It contains oldest extant treatise on Medieval martial arts, ''[[Liber de Arte Dimicatoria]]'', and it appears to have been devised by a secular priest, possibly the "Lutegerus" (Ludger) mentioned in the text.<ref>See [[page:Ms I33 fol 01v.jpg|folio 1v]].</ref> It was the work of three scribes and potentially as many as 17 illustrators.<ref name="Hester">Hester (2012).</ref> The manuscript in its present form consists of five quires, of which all but the first are incomplete; at least eight leaves are believed to be missing (assuming it started with complete quires of four bifolia each).<ref name="Hester"/> |
| − | The '''MS I.33''' (or FECHT 1) is a [[nationality::German]] [[fencing manual]] dating to the 1320s.<ref>The manuscript has received a wide variety of dates. Anglo (1988) dated it to "the very end of the 13th century" and Hils (1985) to the early 14th century; Cinato and Surprenant (2009) are even less precise, placing it at around the turn of the 14th century. Most recent analysis has suggested a slightly later date, with Leng (2008) dating it to 1320-1330 and Hester (2012) to "around 1320".</ref> It currently rests in the holdings of the [[Royal Armouries]] at Leeds, United Kingdom. The I.33 is earliest extant treatise on Medieval martial arts, and it appears to have been devised by a secular priest, possibly the "Lutegerus" (or Liutger) mentioned in the text.<ref>See [[page:Ms I33 fol 01v.jpg|folio 1v]].</ref> It was the work of three scribes and potentially as many as 17 illustrators.<ref name="Hester">Hester (2012).</ref>
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| − | The treatise is fully illustrated, and consists of both mnemonic verses and longer explanations in a vernacular Medieval Latin. (The format of verse and gloss may indicate that the priest was explaining a much older tradition.) It treats unarmored fencing with [[arming sword|sword]] and [[buckler]]; the intriguing fact that the fencers depicted are a priest and a student (and on the last two pages, a priest and a woman identified as St. Walpurga), seems to suggest that this was a middle class or priestly art rather than one of the knightly class. Repeatedly, the text makes mention of the pupils (''scolaris/discipulus'') of the priest, as well as youths (''iuvenis'') and clients (''clientulum''). It seems, therefore, to have been prepared for secular priests who were offering fencing lessons to young men.
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| − | The manuscript in its present form consists of five quires, of which all but the first are incomplete; at least eight leaves are believed to be missing (assuming it started with complete quires of four bifolia each).<ref name="Hester"/> The precise contents of these missing leaves are unknown, but it is possible that they were a source for the thirty [[Anonymous Sword and Buckler Images|uncaptioned sword and buckler plays]] which appear in the [[Berlin Sketchbook (Libr.Pict.A.83)|Libri Picture A 83]], the [[Jörg Breu Draftbook (Cod.I.6.2º.4)|Codex I.6.2º.4]], and the [[Lienhart Sollinger Fechtbuch (Cgm 3712)|Cgm 3712]]; alternatively, these may originate from another manuscript in the same tradition. The anonymous plays seem in turn to have been the primary source for [[Paulus Hector Mair]]'s treatment of the [[side sword]] and buckler, which he captioned with his own interpretations. | |
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| | == Provenance == | | == Provenance == |
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| − | The known provenance of the MS I.33 is: | + | The known provenance of FECHT 1 is: |
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| − | * Written in the 1320s, possibly by a priest named Liutger; owned by Franconian monks until the 1500s. | + | * Written in the 1320s, possibly by a priest named Ludger; owned by Franconian monks until the 1500s. |
| − | * 1400s – an additional couplet was inscribed at the top of [[:File:MS I.33 01r.jpg|folio 1r]]. | + | * 1400s – an additional couplet was inscribed at the top of [[:File:MS I.33 01r.jpg|folio 1r]], apparently a quotation from Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (Pope Pius Ⅱ). |
| − | * 1552-53 – looted from a monastery by [[Johannes Herbart von Würzburg]] during the Franconian campaigns of Albrecht II, margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.<ref name="Gunterrodt">[[Heinrich von Gunterrodt|von Gunterrodt, Heinrich]]. ''[[De Veris Principiis Artis Dimicatorie (Heinrich von Gunterrodt)|De Veris Principiis Artis Dimicatorie]]''. Wittenberg, 1579. p C3rv</ref><ref name="Hester"/> Würzburg was a belt-maker by trade and later served as [[fencing master]] to the dukes of Sachsen-Gotha; he inscribed his name on [[:File:MS I.33 07r.jpg|folio 7r]]. | + | * 1552-53 – looted from a monastery by [[Johannes Herbart von Würzburg]] during the Franconian campaigns of Albrecht Ⅱ, margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.<ref name="Gunterrodt">[[Heinrich von Gunterrodt|von Gunterrodt, Heinrich]]. ''[[De Veris Principiis Artis Dimicatorie (Heinrich von Gunterrodt)|De Veris Principiis Artis Dimicatorie]]''. Wittenberg, 1579. p C3rv</ref><ref name="Hester"/> Würzburg was a belt-maker by trade and later served as [[fencing master]] to the dukes of Sachsen-Gotha; he inscribed his name on [[:File:MS I.33 07r.jpg|folio 7r]]. |
| | * before 1579 – possibly duplicated by [[Heinrich von Gunterrodt]] while compiling material for his book<ref name="Gunterrodt"/> (such a copy is currently unknown). | | * before 1579 – possibly duplicated by [[Heinrich von Gunterrodt]] while compiling material for his book<ref name="Gunterrodt"/> (such a copy is currently unknown). |
| − | * late 1500s-1945 – owned by the dukes of Sachsen-Gotha; listed in an 18th century library catalog as Cod.Membr.I.no.115.{{cn}} The second device on [[:File:MS I.33 26r.jpg|folio 26r]] was copied into the [[Talhoffer Fechtbuch (Cod.Guelf.125.16.Extrav.)|Codex Guelf 125.16 Extravagante]] in the 1600s by a scribe who couldn't decipher the Latin text.<ref>See [[Page:Cod.Guelf.125.16.Extrav. 45r.jpg|Codex Guelf 125.16.Extrav., f 45r]].</ref> The manuscript was further described on six leaves of paper (with short excerpts of the text) by Heinrich Niewöhner in 1910. (Lost during World War II.) | + | * late 1500s-1945 – owned by the dukes of Sachsen-Gotha; listed in an 18th century library catalog as Cod.Membr.Ⅰ.no.115.{{cn}} The second piece on [[:File:MS I.33 26r.jpg|folio 26r]] was copied into the [[Talhoffer Fechtbuch (Cod.Guelf.125.16.Extrav.)|Cod.Guelf.125.16.Extrav.]] (<small>HTWo</small>) in the 1600s by a scribe who couldn't decipher the Latin text.<ref>See [[Page:Cod.Guelf.125.16.Extrav. 45r.jpg|Cod.Guelf.125.16.Extrav., f 45r]].</ref> The manuscript was further described on six leaves of paper (with short excerpts of the text) by Heinrich Niewöhner in 1910. (Lost during World War Ⅱ.) |
| − | * 1945-1950 – location unknown (sold London, [[Sotheby's]], 27 March 1950). Sotheby's listed the manuscript as "a 14th-century manuscript of unknown provenance", and it was not identified as the lost Cod.Membr.I.no.115. until Krämer in 1975.<ref>S. Krämer. "Verbleib unbekannt Angeblich verschollene und wiederaufgetauchte Handschriften." ''Zeitschrift für Deutsches Altertum und Deutsche Literatur,'' volume 104. 1975</ref> | + | * 1945-1950 – location unknown (sold London, [[Sotheby's]], 27 March 1950). Sotheby's listed the manuscript as "a 14th-century manuscript of unknown provenance", and it was not identified as the lost Cod.Membr.Ⅰ.no.115. until Krämer in 1975.<ref>S. Krämer. "Verbleib unbekannt Angeblich verschollene und wiederaufgetauchte Handschriften." ''Zeitschrift für Deutsches Altertum und Deutsche Literatur,'' volume 104. 1975</ref> |
| − | * 1950-1996 – held by the Royal Armouries and stored in the Tower of London; known variously as "Tower of London Ms. I.33" or "British Museum No. 14 E iii, No. 20, D. vi. I". | + | * 1950-1996 – held by the Royal Armouries and stored in the Tower of London; known variously as "Tower of London Ms. Ⅰ.33" or "British Museum No. 14 E ⅲ, No. 20, D. ⅵ. Ⅰ". |
| | * 1996 – moved to the newly-opened Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. | | * 1996 – moved to the newly-opened Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. |
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| − | | <p>[1] ''Stygian Pluto dares not attempt what a rogue monk and a treacherous hag dare do.''<ref>The introductory verse is added on the top margin of the page in a 15th-century hand. The distichon was apparently added in the 15th century, when the manuscript was still kept in a monastery library. It seems to express a disparaging view of “armed clerics” and clearly also refers to the depiction of a female fencer on the last folium. This verse is attested in print in the 16th century, and there attributed to Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II, 1405–64), as follows:
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| − | | <p>[6] {{red|There are three which go forward, and the remaining then flee.<ref>Gunterrodt: ''Tres quae praecedunt, reliquae tantum fugientes''.</ref><br/>These seven parts are executed by the common [fencers],<br/>Luitger the cleric<ref>It is suggestive that the author (if we accept the instructor in the verses and in the manual as the same person) is called ''cler[ic]us'' “the cleric” (or “the clerk”) three times in these verses, but never in the text; conversely, the text consistently calls him ''sacerdos'', and never ''clericus'' (Middle Latin use of ''clerus'' for ''clericus'' is noted in Du Cange's ''Glossarium''). It is almost as if he had composed the verses as a mnenomic orally at an earlier time, before envisaging the project of creating this manual, when he was younger and not yet ordained as a priest. Latin ''clericus'' renders MHG ''pfaffe'', which may could to either a priest, a deacon or a member of the minor orders. Note that it is not unusual to find the designation ''pfaffe'' associated with fencing masters of the late medieval tradition, so [[Hanko Döbringer]] (still in the 14th century) and [[Hans Lecküchner]] (in the later 15th century).<p>The interpretation of the name Lutegerus in the verse on fol. 1v depends on the interpretation of the verse of which it forms a part. This verse is very difficult to interpret in a number of ways. In fact, nothing about it is entirely clear to me.</p></ref> holds the opposite and the middle.<ref>Are we to understand that the seven guards are the same as the “seven parts”, and of these three “precede” (or “go forward” as antonym to ''fugiunt''?) and the remaining (i.e. four) “flee” or “go backward” in some way? CS translate ''Il y en a trois qui avancent, tandis que les autres replient''. But “reply” isn't really what a ''custodia'' does, the system has the separate term ''obsessio'' just for that, and there is nothing in the subsequent material that would somehow suggest that some of the guards have a function of replying or reacting to the others. It is also anyone's guess how the guards are to be grouped. One reasonable assumption would be the the first four, shown on 1r, as opposed to the final three, shown on 1v. There is, in fact, a conceptual difference between the groups, guards 1-4 as described in the manual initiate a strike, while 5 and 6 initiate a thrust, and 7 is a special case, inviting a bind instead of posing a direct threat.<p>Now, the verse goes on to say “these seven (parts, guards) are done by the common fencers”, followed by “the cleric holds the opposite, and Luitger holds the middle”. This may be interpreted in a number of ways. It is important to note that neither ''medium'' nor ''oppositum'' is used in any technical sense anywhere in the manual outside of this verse.</p><p>CS have ''Le clerc est a l'opposé et Luitger à mi-chemin'' “the cleric is opposite, and Luitger is at halfway”, i.e. they here treat “the cleric” as a different person from Luitger. In the reading of Ukert, Lutegerus is a reference by name to a notable “common fencer”, so that the cleric holding “the opposite” would presumably be preferable to the “common fencer” Luitger who holds merely “the middle”.</p><p>It does seem more probable to me, however, that the entire line refers to a single person, ''clerus Lutegerus'', who holds “both the opposite and the middle” and that this statement, as a whole, contrasts with the “common fencers” mentioned in the preceding line. Note that this would mean that the author here employs ''hyperbaton'' (the separation of the two associated nominatives), in apparent aspiration to a “poetic” mode of speech entirely absent from the rest of the “verses”.</p><p>I am unsure whether the terms ''oppositum'' and ''medium'' should be interpreted in a figurative way, as it were “he is in possession of the counter and the means”, or in a strictly spatial sense, as it were “he holds ''against'' (his opponent)” and at the same time “he holds or occupies the ''center''” between the fencers. This latter interpretation strikes me as a useful description of the “conflict of binder and bound” referenced throughout the manual, but it must be admitted that a discussion in the terms used in the verse is not repeated anywhere in the following text. It nevertheless remains my preferred reading, against both CS and Ukert, that “clerus Lutegerus” here refers to a single person, and most likely the manual's author himself (compare the discussion of ''de Alkersleiben'' below).</p></ref>}}</p>
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| − | | <p>[7] '''(+)''' Note, here is contained the first guard, viz. the one under the arm, and the siege is ''halbschilt''. And I give the sensible counsel that the one under the arm should not execute any strike, as recommends ''de Alkersleiben'',<ref>Gunterrodt (1579) read this name as ''Albenslaiben'' recognising it as the name of the “ancient stem and most famous family” (''vetustissima prosapia et clarissima familia'') of Alvensleben. Ukert, on the other hand, reads ''Alkersleiben''. Both Gunterrodt and Ukert recognised the word as a personal name (while a reading ''albersleiben'' is due to Forgeng, who identified the word as a fencing term, a “proto-Liechtenauerian” version of Alber). ''Alkersleiben'' is clearly more consistent with the manuscript, and Gunterrodt's reading should perhaps be considered an emendation, inserting the more familiar name of Alvensleben, a prominent noble family of Brandenburg in Gunterrodt's time (which also had held extensive possessions already in the 1300s). For Gunterrodt, it was obvious that the author of the manuscript must have been a nobleman who had retired to a monastery in his old age, and he took his reading as a confirmation of the association with nobility without positively identifying the name as referencing the manual's author.<p>However, reading ''de Alkersleiben'' (with Ukert) we have a reference to the Thuringian village of Alkersleben (recorded in the 13th century as ''Alkesleibin''), at the time of merely local importance as the site of a manor and a deanery. Alkersleben is some 200 km to the north of the parts of Franconia affected by the Second Margravian War, the presumed area of production of our manuscript. Ukert interprets both ''Lutegerus'' and ''de Alkersleiben'' as the names of “common fencers” (''generales dimicatores'', “gemeine Fechtmeister”). This depends entirely on the context we give to the occurrence of the names, in the case of ''de Alkersleiben'': ''Non ducat aliquam plagam quod probat de Alkersleiben'' “He should not deliver any strike, as recommended by ''de Alkersleiben''” – are we to understand that this is a counsel against the recommendation to “deliver a strike” attributed to a notable “common fencer” known as ''de Alkersleiben'', or are we much rather to understand that the counsel not to deliver a strike is attributed to the highly profi cient fencer known by this name, which would amount to nothing less than yet another reference by the author to himself in the third person? If we are ready to interpret ''Lutegerus'' in this way, I see no obstacle to adopt the same position here, which would give us an author ''Clericus Lutegerus de Alkersleiben'', or, in German, ''Pfaffe Luitger von Alkersleben''. Incidentially, the term ''nucken'' happens to be more consistent with a Thuringian rather than a Franconian origin of whoever is responsible for coining it.</p></ref> for the reason that he cannot reach the upper part; if [he should aim] lower, it would be pernicious to [his] head. But the besieger by entering could invade him at any time if he omits what is being held, as is written below.</p>
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| − | | <p>[34] Above, the priest besieges the scholar; here, the scholar performs the same action as the priest, but the besieger is the first to enter if the scholar omits [further action], as below. Moreover, he should take care lest the other might reach the head, as he can [do that].<ref>The text has a stray ''lu'', the beginning of the word ''ludem'', amended to ''actum'' on the fly (because ''ludus'' “game” is used for a sequence of techniques, while ''actus'' refers to a single tempo, in this case the assumption of ''krucke''). The addition of ''scholaris'' as the subject of ''obmittit'' is in the later hand B.</ref><ref>The technique described is an example of ''Fühlen'' in the bind, the priest may thrust to the belly in the (strong) bind, but the scholar has the opportunity to release the bind and strike to the head, scoring an easy double-hit. As soon as the attacker feels he is losing the bind, he has to interrupt the attack and perform the counter shown in the next image.</ref></p>
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| − | | <p>[73] '''(+)''' Here the priest adopts the sixth ward, which is given to the breast. And note, it is solely this stab that must be executed which is executed from the fifth ward, up to the next sign of the cross.</p>
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| − | | <p>[75] Here the pupil by binding resists and deflects this stab of the priest's <del>in the next</del> above in the next example thus.</p>
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| − | | <p>[77] It is to be seen how the pupil was the first to bind above the priest's sword in the preceding example. Here, the priest approaches and erects his sword and shield for the protection of the head.</p>
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| − | | <p>[79] Here the bound, i.e. the one below, grips sword and shield of the one above.</p>
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| − | | <p>[81] Above the priest was grabbed by the pupil and forced to grapple, which the priest may prevent as shown in the example.</p>
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| − | | <p>[86] '''(+)''' Here the final ward is again adopted, which is called ''langort'', and here the priest is adopting it. But the pupil executes one of the four binds, viz. above the sword, as shown here in the example.</p>
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| − | | <p>[88] '''(+)''' Here the final ward is adopted, viz. ''langort'', by the pupil. Above this ward, the priest binds with one of the four binds, viz. above the sword and to the right. And note that whenever there is a bind, the bound may flee from the binder to wherever he likes, to the left or to the right. Thence you may diligently see that if he flees, you will follow him, as in the verse: The bound flees to the side, I try to follow.</p>
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| − | * Binard, Fanny and Jaquet, Daniel. "Investigation on the collation of the first Fight book (Leeds, Royal Armouries, Ms I.33)". ''[[Acta Periodica Duellatorum]]'' '''4'''(1): 3-21. 2016. {{doi|10.1515/apd-2016-0001}}.
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| − | * Cinato, Franck and Surprenant, André (in French). ''Le Livre de l'art du Combat: Liber de arte dimicatoria. Édition critique du Royal Armouries MS. I.33, collection Sources d'Histoire Médiévale nº39.'' Paris: CNRS Editions, 2009. ISBN 978-2-271-06757-9
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| − | * Dawson, Timothy. "The Walpurgis Fechtbuch: An Inheritance of Constantinople?" ''Arms & Armour'' '''6'''(1):79-92. April 2009. {{doi|10.1179/174962609X417536}}
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| − | * [[Jeffrey L. Forgeng|Forgeng, Jeffrey L.]] ''[http://illuminatedfightbook.co.uk/ The Illuminated Fightbook Royal Armouries Manuscript I.33]''. Extraordinary Editions, 2012.
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| − | * [[Jeffrey L. Forgeng|Forgeng, Jeffrey L.]] ''The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: A Facsimile & Translation of Europe's Oldest Personal Combat Treatise, Royal Armouries MS I.33 (Royal Armouries Monograph)''. [[Chivalry Bookshelf]], 2003. ISBN 1-891448-38-2
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| − | *:* [http://www.wpi.edu/~jforgeng/I.33_Corrigenda.pdf Corrigenda for Forgeng (2003)]
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| − | * [[Jeffrey L. Forgeng|Forgeng, Jeffrey L.]] ''The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: Royal Armouries MS I.33''. [[Royal Armouries]], 2018. ISBN 978-0948092855
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| − | * Gräf, Julia. "Fighting in women’s clothes: The pictorial evidence of Walpurgis in Ms. I.33". ''Acta Periodica Duellatorum'' '''5'''(2):47-71. December 2017. {{doi|10.1515/apd-2017-0008}}.
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| − | * Hester, James. "A Few Leaves Short of a Quire: Is the ‘Tower Fechtbuch’ Incomplete?" ''Arms & Armour'' '''9'''(1):20-25. April 2012. {{doi|10.1179/1741612411Z.0000000003}}
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| − | * Hester, James. "Home-Grown Fighting: A Response to the Argument for a Byzantine Influence on MS I.33". ''Arms & Armour'' '''9'''(1):76-84. April 2012. {{doi|10.1179/1741612411Z.0000000008}}
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| − | * Kellett, Rachel E. "Royal Armouries MS I.33: The Judicial Combat and the Art of Fencing in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth- Century German Literature". ''Oxford German Studies'' '''41'''(1):32-56. April 2012. {{doi|10.1179/0078719112Z.0000000003}}
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| − | * [[Andrea Morini|Morini, Andrea]] and Rudilosso, Riccardo (in Italian). ''Manoscritto I.33''. Rome: Il Cerchio Iniziative Editoriali, 2012.
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