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| name = [[name::Goliath Fechtbuch]] | | name = [[name::Goliath Fechtbuch]] | ||
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| imageright = File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 IIr.jpg | | imageright = File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 IIr.jpg | ||
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− | | caption = | + | | caption = David and Goliath, Ⅰv - Ⅱr |
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− | | | + | | Hagedorn's catalog = [[HS::G]] |
− | | Wierschin's catalog= | + | | Wierschin's catalog= — |
| Hils' catalog = [[HK::29]] | | Hils' catalog = [[HK::29]] | ||
− | | Beck catalog = {{ | + | | Beck catalog = [http://kdih.badw.de/datenbank/handschrift/38/1/3 38.1.3] {{#set:BC=38.1.3}}<br/>[http://kdih.badw.de/datenbank/handschrift/38/4/1 38.4.1] {{#set:BC=38.4.1}} |
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| Also known as = MS 5879 | | Also known as = MS 5879 | ||
| Type = {{plainlist | | Type = {{plainlist | ||
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| [[type::Wrestling manual]] | | [[type::Wrestling manual]] | ||
}} | }} | ||
− | | Date = [[year:: | + | | Date = [[year::1535-1540|1535 - 1540]] |
− | | Place of origin = | + | | Place of origin = Augsburg or Landshut |
| Language(s) = [[language::Early New High German]] | | Language(s) = [[language::Early New High German]] | ||
− | | Scribe(s) = | + | | Scribe(s) = Unknown |
| Author(s) = {{collapsible list | | Author(s) = {{collapsible list | ||
| [[author::Peter Falkner]] | | [[author::Peter Falkner]] | ||
− | | [[author::Martin | + | | [[author::Martin Huntsfeld]] |
| [[author::Johannes Liechtenauer]] | | [[author::Johannes Liechtenauer]] | ||
− | | [[author::Andre | + | | [[author::Andre Lignitzer]] |
| [[author::Ott Jud]] | | [[author::Ott Jud]] | ||
− | | [[author::Andre | + | | [[author::Andre Paurenfeyndt]] |
}} | }} | ||
− | | Compiled by = | + | | Compiled by = [[Georg Lemberger]] |
− | | Illuminated by = | + | | Illuminated by = [[artist::Georg Lemberger]] |
− | | Patron = | + | | Patron = Unknown |
| Dedicated to = | | Dedicated to = | ||
<!----------Form and content----------> | <!----------Form and content----------> | ||
− | | Material = Paper, with a modern leather | + | | Material = Paper, with a modern leather binding |
− | | Size = 285 [[folia]] | + | | Size = 285 [[folia]] (200 mm × 217 mm) |
− | | Format = Double-sided; text with <br/> | + | | Format = Double-sided; text with scattered <br/>illustrations |
| Condition = | | Condition = | ||
− | | Script = | + | | Script = |
| Contents = | | Contents = | ||
| Illumination(s) = | | Illumination(s) = | ||
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| Exemplar(s) = | | Exemplar(s) = | ||
| Previously kept = | | Previously kept = | ||
− | | Discovered = | + | | Discovered = |
| Website = | | Website = | ||
| Images = {{plainlist | | Images = {{plainlist | ||
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− | The '''Goliath Fechtbuch''' (MS | + | The '''Goliath Fechtbuch''' (MS germ. quart. 2020) is a [[nationality::German]] [[fencing manual]] created between 1535 and 1540,<ref>Welle 2017, p 9. The date of "1510 - 1520" on the [[:File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 Cover 2.jpg|inside cover]] is a later addition, and seems to be incorrect.</ref> possibly by [[Georg Lemberger]] (1495/1500-1540/45).<ref>Welle 2017, p 20.</ref> The original currently rests in the holdings of the [[Biblioteka Jagiellońska]] in Kraków, Poland. It is generally 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, though it may simply come down to the popularity of the story in this period as an example of a righteous single combat. (It may also be an allusion to the size of the [[sword]]s 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]]. There appears to be a single illustrator throughout, and potentially a single scribe as well, despite the number of different scripts employed.<ref>Welle 2017, pp 10-11.</ref> The first several sections include elaborately painted illustrations, but the illustrations 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 Lemberger's death some time after 1537). | |
+ | |||
+ | Zabinski assumes that the date on the cover is correct and speculates based on a number of factors that Goliath was commissioned for Maximilian Ⅰ (1459-1519), a well-known aficionado of military texts.<ref>Zabinski 2010, pp 83-91.</ref> Welle, however, rejects this hypothesis and date, and arrives at a date in the latter 1530s based on handwriting and watermark analysis.<ref>Welle 2017, pp 9-11.</ref> | ||
== Provenance == | == Provenance == | ||
− | The known provenance of the MS German Quarto 2020 is: | + | The known provenance of the MS German Quarto 2020 is:<ref>Welle 2017, pp 6-8.</ref> |
− | * | + | * Created between 1535 and 1540 in southern Germany by [[Georg Lemberger]]. |
− | * before 1564 – partially copied by [[Lienhart Sollinger]] into a manuscript included in the [[ | + | * before 1564 – partially copied by [[Lienhart Sollinger]] into a manuscript included in the [[Wilhalm/Sollinger Fechtbuch (Cod.I.6.2º.2)|Cod. Ⅰ.6.2º.2]]. |
− | * before 1923 – owned by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt ( | + | * before 1923 – owned by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1807-1878) and Jean Louis Burckhardt (1883-1943). The terms of ownership of both men are unknown; sold 1923. |
− | * 1923-1938 – held by Fischer | + | * 1923-1938 – held by Fischer Gallery and Kunsthandel A.-G. Böhler & Steinmeyer in Luzern, Germany (sold to the [[Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin]], 1938). Offered to [[Robert Lyons Scott]] several times in 1935, but no sale took place. |
− | * 1938- | + | * 1938-1946 – held by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in Berlin, Germany; moved to Fürstenstein Castle in 1941, and then Grüssau monastery in 1944. Transferred to Kraków after World War Ⅱ. |
− | * | + | * 1946-present – held by the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków, Poland. |
== Contents == | == Contents == | ||
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{| class="treatise" | {| class="treatise" | ||
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− | ! id="page" | | + | ! id="page" | Ⅰr - Ⅱv |
| {{treatise begin | | {{treatise begin | ||
| title = Front matter | | title = Front matter | ||
− | | width = | + | | width = 90m |
}} | }} | ||
− | {| class=" | + | {| class="treatisecontent" |
|- | |- | ||
− | ! <p> | + | ! <p>Illustrations</p> |
! <p>{{rating|C}}<br/>by [[Bartłomiej Walczak]]</p> | ! <p>{{rating|C}}<br/>by [[Bartłomiej Walczak]]</p> | ||
− | ! <p>Transcription{{edit index|Goliath Fechtbuch (MS Germ.Quart.2020)}}<br/>by [[ | + | ! <p>Transcription{{edit index|Goliath Fechtbuch (MS Germ.Quart.2020)}}<br/>by [[Michael Chidester]]</p> |
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− | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 Cover 2.jpg| | + | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 Cover 2.jpg|400px|center]] |
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− | 10185<br/> | + | 10185<br/>Schweiz<br/>1510-1520<br/>RY/EY<br/> |
− | Schweiz<br/> | ||
− | 1510-1520<br/> | ||
− | RY/EY<br/> | ||
− | {{dec|u| | + | {{dec|u|Burckhardt-Schönauer Maler}} |
− | {{dec|u| | + | {{dec|u|Gellertstrasse ₦º 2. Basel}} |
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− | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 Ir.jpg| | + | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 Ir.jpg|400px|center]] |
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au.ms.1938.30 | au.ms.1938.30 | ||
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− | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 Iv.jpg| | + | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 Iv.jpg|400px|center]] |
| <p>It is a most beautiful play when one can see that they are punished, not by a stranger's, but by their own work, stabbed to death with their own sword; and their head is chopped off with their own sword, as it happened to Goliath.</p> | | <p>It is a most beautiful play when one can see that they are punished, not by a stranger's, but by their own work, stabbed to death with their own sword; and their head is chopped off with their own sword, as it happened to Goliath.</p> | ||
− | | {{paget|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020|Iv|jpg}} | + | | {{paget|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020|Iv|jpg|lbl=Ⅰv}} |
|- | |- | ||
− | | rowspan="2" | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 IIr.jpg| | + | | class="noline" rowspan="2" | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 IIr.jpg|400px|center]] |
| <p>This figure is '''Goliath''': he was a terrible cruel giant, whom all men feared except for little David (that is, Christ) who alone killed him, and chopped his head off with his own sword, which was the sword of old Jesse, as one can read in the First Book of Kings, chapter 21.<ref>Actually First Samuel 17.</ref></p> | | <p>This figure is '''Goliath''': he was a terrible cruel giant, whom all men feared except for little David (that is, Christ) who alone killed him, and chopped his head off with his own sword, which was the sword of old Jesse, as one can read in the First Book of Kings, chapter 21.<ref>Actually First Samuel 17.</ref></p> | ||
− | | {{section|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020 IIr.jpg|1|lbl= | + | | {{section|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020 IIr.jpg|1|lbl=Ⅱr}} |
|- | |- | ||
− | | <p>Because he prepared and ordered the death in order to overcome and cut away sins.</p> | + | | class="noline" | <p>Because he prepared and ordered the death in order to overcome and cut away sins.</p> |
− | | {{section|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020 IIr.jpg|2|lbl=-}} | + | | class="noline" | {{section|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020 IIr.jpg|2|lbl=-}} |
|} | |} | ||
{{treatise end}} | {{treatise end}} | ||
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− | ! | + | ! 1r - 7r |
| [[Recital]] on [[long sword]] fencing by [[Johannes Liechtenauer]] | | [[Recital]] on [[long sword]] fencing by [[Johannes Liechtenauer]] | ||
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− | ! [[Andre | + | ! [[Andre Paurenfeyndt|75r - 84v]] |
− | | [[Pole weapons]] by [[Andre | + | | [[Pole weapons]] by [[Andre Paurenfeyndt]] |
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| {{treatise begin | | {{treatise begin | ||
| title = Anonymous dagger teachings | | title = Anonymous dagger teachings | ||
− | | width = | + | | width = 90em |
}} | }} | ||
− | {| class=" | + | {| class="treatisecontent" |
|- | |- | ||
− | ! <p> | + | ! <p>Illustrations</p> |
! <p>{{rating|C}}<br/>by [[Kirk Siemsen]]</p> | ! <p>{{rating|C}}<br/>by [[Kirk Siemsen]]</p> | ||
− | ! <p>Transcription{{edit index|Goliath Fechtbuch (MS Germ.Quart.2020)}}<br/>by [[ | + | ! <p>Transcription{{edit index|Goliath Fechtbuch (MS Germ.Quart.2020)}}<br/>by [[Michael Chidester]]</p> |
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− | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 089v.jpg| | + | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 089v.jpg|400px|center]] |
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| {{paget|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020|089r|jpg}} | | {{paget|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020|089r|jpg}} | ||
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− | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 090r.jpg| | + | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 090r.jpg|400px|center]] |
| <p>'''A Stepping Move and an Arm Break'''</p> | | <p>'''A Stepping Move and an Arm Break'''</p> | ||
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| <p>'''An Arm Break and a Stepping Move'''</p> | | <p>'''An Arm Break and a Stepping Move'''</p> | ||
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| <p>'''Breaking the Arm'''</p> | | <p>'''Breaking the Arm'''</p> | ||
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− | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 091v.jpg| | + | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 091v.jpg|400px|center]] |
| <p>'''How to Singly Control His Stab from Above'''</p> | | <p>'''How to Singly Control His Stab from Above'''</p> | ||
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− | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 092r.jpg| | + | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 092r.jpg|400px|center]] |
| <p>'''A Hold as He Grabs the Collar from Behind'''</p> | | <p>'''A Hold as He Grabs the Collar from Behind'''</p> | ||
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− | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 092v.jpg| | + | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 092v.jpg|400px|center]] |
| <p>'''Capturing the dagger'''</p> | | <p>'''Capturing the dagger'''</p> | ||
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| <p>'''Regarding a Stab'''</p> | | <p>'''Regarding a Stab'''</p> | ||
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− | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 093v.jpg| | + | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 093v.jpg|400px|center]] |
| <p>'''Breaking the Wrist'''</p> | | <p>'''Breaking the Wrist'''</p> | ||
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− | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 094r.jpg| | + | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 094r.jpg|400px|center]] |
| <p>'''Regarding a Stab and a Break of the Arm'''</p> | | <p>'''Regarding a Stab and a Break of the Arm'''</p> | ||
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| {{paget|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020|094r|jpg}} | | {{paget|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020|094r|jpg}} | ||
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− | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 094v.jpg| | + | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 094v.jpg|400px|center]] |
| <p>'''Regarding a Stab'''</p> | | <p>'''Regarding a Stab'''</p> | ||
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| <p>'''Regarding a Stab'''</p> | | <p>'''Regarding a Stab'''</p> | ||
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| <p>'''A Stab'''</p> | | <p>'''A Stab'''</p> | ||
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| <p>'''Regarding a Stab'''</p> | | <p>'''Regarding a Stab'''</p> | ||
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| <p>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.</p> | | <p>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.</p> | ||
| {{paget|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020|096v|jpg}} | | {{paget|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020|096v|jpg}} | ||
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− | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 097r.jpg| | + | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 097r.jpg|400px|center]] |
| <p>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; go, and seize it by stepping behind him so you can drive in while shoving his dagger with a quick thrust.</p> | | <p>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; go, and seize it by stepping behind him so you can drive in while shoving his dagger with a quick thrust.</p> | ||
| {{paget|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020|097r|jpg}} | | {{paget|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020|097r|jpg}} | ||
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− | | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 097v.jpg| | + | | class="noline" | [[File:MS Germ.Quart.2020 097v.jpg|400px|center]] |
− | | <p>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.</p> | + | | class="noline" | <p>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.</p> |
− | | {{paget|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020|097v|jpg}} | + | | class="noline" | {{paget|Page:MS Germ.Quart.2020|097v|jpg}} |
|} | |} | ||
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− | ! [[Andre | + | ! [[Andre Lignitzer|98r - 102v]] |
− | | Dagger by [[Andre | + | | Dagger by [[Andre Lignitzer]] |
|- | |- | ||
− | ! [[Martin | + | ! [[Martin Huntsfeld|103r - 110v]] |
− | | Dagger by [[Martin | + | | Dagger by [[Martin Huntsfeld]] |
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− | ! [[Andre | + | ! [[Andre Lignitzer|148r - 157r]] |
− | | Grappling by [[Andre | + | | Grappling by [[Andre Lignitzer]] |
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− | ! [[Martin | + | ! [[Martin Huntsfeld|192v - 196r]] |
− | | Mounted fencing by [[Martin | + | | Mounted fencing by [[Martin Huntsfeld]] |
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− | ! [[Andre | + | ! [[Andre Lignitzer|252r - 271v]] |
− | | Short sword fencing by [[Andre | + | | Short sword fencing by [[Andre Lignitzer]] |
|- | |- | ||
− | ! [[Martin | + | ! [[Martin Huntsfeld|272r - 281v]] |
− | | Short sword fencing by [[Martin | + | | Short sword fencing by [[Martin Huntsfeld]] |
|} | |} | ||
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== Gallery == | == Gallery == | ||
− | + | {{collation}} | |
+ | |||
+ | Scans hosted on Wiktenauer with permission from the [[Biblioteka Jagiellońska]]. | ||
{{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 Cover 1.jpg|Front Cover}} | {{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 Cover 1.jpg|Front Cover}} | ||
{{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 Cover 2.jpg|Inside Cover}} | {{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 Cover 2.jpg|Inside Cover}} | ||
− | {{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 Ir.jpg| | + | {{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 Ir.jpg|Ⅰr}} |
− | {{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 Iv.jpg| | + | {{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 Iv.jpg|Ⅰv}} |
− | {{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 IIr.jpg| | + | {{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 IIr.jpg|Ⅱr}} |
− | {{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 IIv.jpg| | + | {{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 IIv.jpg|Ⅱv}} |
{{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 001r.jpg|Folio 1r}} | {{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 001r.jpg|Folio 1r}} | ||
{{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 001v.jpg|Folio 1v}} | {{image|MS Germ.Quart.2020 001v.jpg|Folio 1v}} | ||
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== Additional Resources == | == Additional Resources == | ||
− | + | {{bibliography}} | |
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== References == | == References == | ||
− | {{reflist}} | + | {{reflist|2}} |
== Copyright and License Summary == | == Copyright and License Summary == | ||
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{{sourcebox | {{sourcebox | ||
− | | work = | + | | work = Scans |
| authors = [[Biblioteka Jagiellońska]] | | authors = [[Biblioteka Jagiellońska]] | ||
| source link = http://www.bj.uj.edu.pl/ | | source link = http://www.bj.uj.edu.pl/ | ||
| source title= Biblioteka Jagiellońska | | source title= Biblioteka Jagiellońska | ||
− | | license = | + | | license = public domain |
}} | }} | ||
{{sourcebox | {{sourcebox | ||
| work = Translation | | work = Translation | ||
− | | authors = [[Kirk Siemsen]] | + | | authors = [[translator::Kirk Siemsen]] |
| source link = | | source link = | ||
| source title= Private communication | | source title= Private communication | ||
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| work = Transcription | | work = Transcription | ||
− | | authors = [[ | + | | authors = [[transcriber::Michael Chidester]] |
| source link = | | source link = | ||
| source title= [[Index:Goliath Fechtbuch (MS Germ.Quart.2020)]] | | source title= [[Index:Goliath Fechtbuch (MS Germ.Quart.2020)]] | ||
− | | license = | + | | license = noncommercial |
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Goliath Fechtbuch | |||||
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MS germ. quart. 2020, Biblioteka Jagiellońska Kraków, Poland | |||||
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Also known as | MS 5879 | ||||
Type | |||||
Date | 1535 - 1540 | ||||
Place of origin | Augsburg or Landshut | ||||
Language(s) | Early New High German | ||||
Author(s) | |||||
Compiler | Georg Lemberger | ||||
Scribe(s) | Unknown | ||||
Illustrator(s) | Georg Lemberger | ||||
Patron | Unknown | ||||
Material | Paper, with a modern leather binding | ||||
Size | 285 folia (200 mm × 217 mm) | ||||
Format | Double-sided; text with scattered illustrations | ||||
Treatise scans |
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The Goliath Fechtbuch (MS germ. quart. 2020) is a German fencing manual created between 1535 and 1540,[1] possibly by Georg Lemberger (1495/1500-1540/45).[2] The original currently rests in the holdings of the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków, Poland. It is generally 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, though it may simply come down to the popularity of the story in this period as an example of a righteous single combat. (It may also be an allusion to the size of the swords 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. There appears to be a single illustrator throughout, and potentially a single scribe as well, despite the number of different scripts employed.[3] The first several sections include elaborately painted illustrations, but the illustrations 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 Lemberger's death some time after 1537).
Zabinski assumes that the date on the cover is correct and speculates based on a number of factors that Goliath was commissioned for Maximilian Ⅰ (1459-1519), a well-known aficionado of military texts.[4] Welle, however, rejects this hypothesis and date, and arrives at a date in the latter 1530s based on handwriting and watermark analysis.[5]
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Provenance
The known provenance of the MS German Quarto 2020 is:[6]
- Created between 1535 and 1540 in southern Germany by Georg Lemberger.
- before 1564 – partially copied by Lienhart Sollinger into a manuscript included in the Cod. Ⅰ.6.2º.2.
- before 1923 – owned by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1807-1878) and Jean Louis Burckhardt (1883-1943). The terms of ownership of both men are unknown; sold 1923.
- 1923-1938 – held by Fischer Gallery and Kunsthandel A.-G. Böhler & Steinmeyer in Luzern, Germany (sold to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 1938). Offered to Robert Lyons Scott several times in 1935, but no sale took place.
- 1938-1946 – held by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in Berlin, Germany; moved to Fürstenstein Castle in 1941, and then Grüssau monastery in 1944. Transferred to Kraków after World War Ⅱ.
- 1946-present – held by the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków, Poland.
Contents
Ⅰr - Ⅱv | Front matter
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1r - 7r | Recital on long sword fencing by Johannes Liechtenauer |
7v - 73v | Gloss of Liechtenauer's Recital on long sword fencing by Pseudo-Peter von Danzig |
75r - 84v | Pole weapons by Andre Paurenfeyndt |
85r - 86r | Pole weapons by Peter Falkner |
89r - 97v | Anonymous dagger teachings
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98r - 102v | Dagger by Andre Lignitzer |
103r - 110v | Dagger by Martin Huntsfeld |
111r - 128r, 157v - 159r |
Anonymous grappling teachings |
130v - 147v | Grappling by Ott Jud |
148r - 157r | Grappling by Andre Lignitzer |
163r - 166r | Recital and figures on mounted fencing by Johannes Liechtenauer |
166v - 192r | Gloss of Liechtenauer's Recital on mounted fencing by Pseudo-Peter von Danzig |
192v - 196r | Mounted fencing by Martin Huntsfeld |
199r - 251v | Gloss of Liechtenauer's Recital on short sword fencing by Pseudo-Peter von Danzig |
252r - 271v | Short sword fencing by Andre Lignitzer |
272r - 281v | Short sword fencing by Martin Huntsfeld |
Gallery
Scans hosted on Wiktenauer with permission from the Biblioteka Jagiellońska.
Additional Resources
The following is a list of publications containing scans, transcriptions, and translations relevant to this article, as well as published peer-reviewed research.
- Hull, Jeffrey; Grzegorz Żabiński; Monika Maziarz (2007). Knightly Dueling: The Fighting Arts of German Chivalry. Boulder: Paladin Press. ISBN 978-1-581606744.
- Jaquet, Daniel; Bartłomiej Walczak (2014). "Liegnitzer, Hundsfeld or Lew? The question of authorship of popular Medieval fighting teachings." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 2(1): 105-148. doi:10.1515/apd-2015-0015.
- Minkowski, Helmut (1963). Das Ringen im Grüblein: eine spätmittelalterliche Form des deutschen Leibringens. Stuttgart: K. Hofmann.
- Walczak, Bartłomiej (2022). "Bauman Dagger Techniques and the Augsburg Group." Bauman's Fight Book: Augsburg University Library Ⅰ.6.4º 2: 103-128. Ed. by Michael Chidester. Medford: HEMA Bookshelf. ISBN 978-1-953683-27-4.
- Wassmannsdorff, Karl (1871). Das um das Jahr 1500 gedruckte erste deutsche Turnbuch. Heidelberg: Groos.
- Welle, Rainer (1993). '…und wisse das alle höbischeit kompt von deme ringen'. Der Ringkampf als adelige Kunst im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN 3-89085-755-8.
- Welle, Rainer (2017). "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 S12. Purkersdorf: Verlag Brüder Hollinek. ISBN 0379-3621.
- Żabiński, Grzegorz (2010). The Longsword Teachings of Master Liechtenauer. The Early Sixteenth Century Swordsmanship Comments in the 'Goliath' Manuscript. Poland: Adam Marshall. ISBN 978-83-7611-662-4.
References
- ↑ Welle 2017, p 9. The date of "1510 - 1520" on the inside cover is a later addition, and seems to be incorrect.
- ↑ Welle 2017, p 20.
- ↑ Welle 2017, pp 10-11.
- ↑ Zabinski 2010, pp 83-91.
- ↑ Welle 2017, pp 9-11.
- ↑ Welle 2017, pp 6-8.
- ↑ Actually First Samuel 17.
- ↑ Corrected from dein.
- ↑ Corrected from auf.
- ↑ Initially lower case and corrected.
- ↑ Possibly corrected from sucht.
- ↑ Possibly corrected from dein.
Copyright and License Summary
For further information, including transcription and translation notes, see the discussion page.
Work | Author(s) | Source | License |
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Scans | Biblioteka Jagiellońska | Biblioteka Jagiellońska | |
Translation | Kirk Siemsen | Private communication | |
Transcription | Michael Chidester | Index:Goliath Fechtbuch (MS Germ.Quart.2020) |