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| <p>'''Pass below'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Pass below'''</p>
  
<p>Pass further can also take the high point ox<ref>the word "hocs" means "hooks", but I believe it is meant to be a loanword for ox instead.</ref>. Take it from high to low through the roses with crossed hands and the short edge in his face, and let it run downwards briefly to the long edge, and step after.</p>
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<p>Pass beyond can also take the high point ox<ref>the word "hocs" means "hooks", but I believe it is meant to be a loanword for ox instead.</ref>. Take it from high to low through the roses with crossed hands and the short edge in his face, and let it run downwards briefly to the long edge, and step after.</p>
 
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<p>Position yourself as before with braced hands, step in with the short edge shot over to the opponent's left ear and make a follow up strike with the long edge.</p>
 
<p>Position yourself as before with braced hands, step in with the short edge shot over to the opponent's left ear and make a follow up strike with the long edge.</p>
| <p>'''Shoot further'''</p>
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| <p>'''Shoot beyond'''</p>
  
<p>Lower yourself as before with the hands crossed and step with the short edge. Shoot further to his left ear, and turn your hands away and strike a long cut after him.</p>
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<p>Lower yourself as before with the hands crossed and step with the short edge. Shoot beyond to his left ear, and turn your hands away and strike a long cut after him.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Break'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Break'''</p>
  
<p>When someone passes over you further with the short edge, turn the wing downwards. Thus you will have a cut against cut and the same or similar action or work.</p>
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<p>When someone passes over you beyond with the short edge, turn the wing downwards. Thus you will have a cut against cut and the same or similar action or work.</p>
 
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<p>If someone has lodged against your breast, take hold of their sword with your left hand forward by the point and thrust your sword behind their left leg and press against them with your breast and with your left hand against their breast, shove them back backwards over your sword.</p>
 
<p>If someone has lodged against your breast, take hold of their sword with your left hand forward by the point and thrust your sword behind their left leg and press against them with your breast and with your left hand against their breast, shove them back backwards over your sword.</p>
| '''Play'''</p>
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| '''Piece'''</p>
  
<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 further 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 beyond with your hand over your sword.</p>
 
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<p>When you find someone in plow, overshoot them, be it with your short or long edge, before they come to their work. In this way, you bar them from neither yanking back nor striking. This will not fail you if you seize them in their resting position.</p>
 
<p>When you find someone in plow, overshoot them, be it with your short or long edge, before they come to their work. In this way, you bar them from neither yanking back nor striking. This will not fail you if you seize them in their resting position.</p>
| <p>'''Play'''</p>
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| <p>'''Piece'''</p>
  
 
<p>When you find someone in the flight, pass over him either with the short or long edge before he starts to work. Prohibit him from being able to neither pull back nor strike, such that it never fails when you take away the point.</p>
 
<p>When you find someone in the flight, pass over him either with the short or long edge before he starts to work. Prohibit him from being able to neither pull back nor strike, such that it never fails when you take away the point.</p>
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| <p>'''From bind'''</p>
 
| <p>'''From bind'''</p>
  
<p>If someone binds you at the chest and he pressures strongly above, turn out below through the roses against the face to the left ear and turn his sword and open him, but if he pulls back and strikes, raise high in defense.</p>
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<p>If someone binds you at the chest and he pressures strongly above, turn out below through the roses against his face to his left ear and turn his sword and open him, but if he pulls back and strikes, raise high in defense.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Break'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Break'''</p>
  
<p>When someone binds with you from above and lies strongly such that you will not pull back yet also want to pull back inside, raise your pommel high and let the point go between the hands and pull it back, and he will let you go.</p>
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<p>When someone binds with you from above and lies strongly such that you will not pull back yet also want to pull back in, raise your pommel high and let the point go between his hands and pull it back, and he will let you go.</p>
 
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<p>If someone binds you, and lies firm in the bind against your sword, reach over both of their hands with your hilt and wrench down towards yourself, with this you uncover them and strike.</p>
 
<p>If someone binds you, and lies firm in the bind against your sword, reach over both of their hands with your hilt and wrench down towards yourself, with this you uncover them and strike.</p>
| <p>Raise cross to cross</p>
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| <p>'''Raise cross to cross'''</p>
  
<p>When someone binds against you cross to cross and lies in the binding strongly against your sword, advance the hilt of your sword further than your two hands, and run it down towards yourself, of which you open him and strike.</p>
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<p>When someone binds against you cross to cross and lies in the binding strongly against your sword, advance the hilt of your sword beyond your two hands, and run it down towards yourself of which you open him and strike.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Piece'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Piece'''</p>
  
<p>When someone moves ahead into the long point on the crossing, set the pommel of your sword further than the hilt of his sword between the two hands and take your left thumb on the hilt and pull back towards yourself so that you open and then strike him.</p>
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<p>When someone moves in front of you into the long point on the cross, push the pommel of your sword beyond the hilt of his sword between his two hands and take your left thumb on his hilt and pull back towards yourself so that you open and then strike him.</p>
 
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<p>When someone lies in the speaking window, position your self in exactly the same way. If they will not work shove them with your left hand on their right hand such that they turn themselves and uncovers them with it.</p>
 
<p>When someone lies in the speaking window, position your self in exactly the same way. If they will not work shove them with your left hand on their right hand such that they turn themselves and uncovers them with it.</p>
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<p>When someone advances to put himself in the cross, put yourself also like him, and if he wants to work, put your left hand on his right such that he turns himself. Thus he opens himself.</p>
 
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<p>When someone lies in the speaking window, position your self in the same way as well and reach over your sword with the fingers of your right hand and latch their sword to yours. With that you press their hands.</p>
 
<p>When someone lies in the speaking window, position your self in the same way as well and reach over your sword with the fingers of your right hand and latch their sword to yours. With that you press their hands.</p>
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| <p>'''Piece.'''</p>
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<p>When someone is on the cross in front of you, put yourself like so and with your fingers of your right hand take his sword with it, and press his hands.</p>
 
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<p>When you find someone in the speaking window or crosswise cut, reach over their right hand up from the outside with your left hand and position them into weakness with your left foot to the outside, across their right knee pit and draw them away from you so that they must let their sword drop.</p>
 
<p>When you find someone in the speaking window or crosswise cut, reach over their right hand up from the outside with your left hand and position them into weakness with your left foot to the outside, across their right knee pit and draw them away from you so that they must let their sword drop.</p>
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| <p>'''Take the sword.'''</p>
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<p>If you find someone on the cross in front of you, reach out with your left hand over his right hand, and put him out of balance with your left foot over his bent knee, pulling your left hand which has the sword.It must be that he drops his sword.</p>
 
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Revision as of 22:12, 6 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. Top cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: yglichs in dreu wunder
  17. Corrected from »lanngem«
  18. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: vmbsunst vrsach halben er mag kain folling straich auff dich habñ
  19. Erreur d'impression?
  20. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: dar uber
  21. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: arm
  22. Rephrasing of Ovid's "Cunctis qui placeat non credo quomodo vivat".
  23. Rephrasing of the proverb from Pliny, "ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret".
  24. Hieronymous Büttner