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| <p>'''Piece on raising'''</p>
 
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<p>When you are in the near guard on your left side and when someone shoots the cut high on your head from his left armpit, raise high below his sword with the short edge. If he presses strongly against you and if he is not in high point with his hands, double between the man and his sword with the short edge towards his left ear.</p>
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<p>When you are in the near guard on your left side and when someone shoots the high cut on your head from his left armpit, raise up from below his sword with the short edge. If he presses strongly against you and if he is not in high point with his hands, double between the man and his sword with the short edge towards his left ear.</p>
 
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<p>When you raise from low to high against his sword and if he is gentle with the said sword and with lower hands, strike the long edge high towards his open target.</p>
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<p>When you raise from low to high against his sword and if he is gentle with the said sword and with lower hands, strike with the long edge high towards his open target.</p>
 
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<p>When you touch his sword, if he raises high and if he turns to strike with the long edge, if he strikes again with the work, strike his left side with a step back.</p>
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<p>When you touch his sword and if he raises up, turns to strike with the long edge, and strikes again with the work; strike his left side with a step back.</p>
 
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<p>When you are in the near guard or if you lead the cuts towards the man, if he pulls his sword crossed in front of himself and he wants to fall above you with the arms raised high, strike below his sword to his chest.</p>
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<p>When you are in the near guard or if you lead the cuts towards the man, if he pulls his sword crossed in front of himself and wants to fall above you with the arms raised high, strike below his sword to his chest.</p>
 
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<p>If he is with his hands low and he wants to rise up, shoot over and thrust at his chest on the other side and then disengage<ref>Lit. “Pass in change.”</ref>.</p>
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<p>If he is with his hands low and wants to raise up, shoot over and thrust at his chest on the other side and then disengage<ref>Lit. “Pass in change.”</ref>.</p>
 
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<p>When you shoot over, if you run down with the long point or tip on his sword and turn on your left side so that your thumb comes up, move into him with force with the long edge to the right of his neck, and step in front with your right foot, and shoot over him.</p>
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<p>When you shoot over, if you run down with the long point or tip on his sword and turn on your left side so that your thumb comes up, move into him forcefully with the long edge to the right of his neck. Step forward with your right foot, and shoot over him.</p>
 
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<p>When you disengage, come to the other side high on his sword so that you can do similar cases well.</p>
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<p>When you disengage, come to the other side above his sword so that you can do similar cases well.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Fight to move in on him.'''</p>
 
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<p>When you fight with someone and approach him, if you come in the cross<ref>''Pflug'' based on the German.</ref> and drive him out, calmly circling from one side to the other and let your tip remain in front of you so that you can make the defense. And note this next: strengthen after with the long edge and from that do all the aforementioned cases or pieces. Also you can defend with the point and break him by striking and disengaging, seeking defense with the tip.</p>
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<p>When you fight with someone and approach him and if you come in the cross and drive him out, calmly turning from one side to the other, let your tip remain in front of you so that you can make the defense. And note this next: strengthen after with the long edge and from that perform all of the aforementioned cases or pieces. You can also defend with the point and break him by striking and disengaging, seeking defense with the tip.</p>
 
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<p>If someone strikes high or however towards you, strike him in or curve from the side. Open him after with a downwards strike.</p>
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<p>If someone strikes from above or however towards you, strike him inwards or curve or from the side towards his opening with a downwards strike.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Break the strong cut.'''</p>
 
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<p>When you are in high guard and someone strikes towards you with the work, if you strike inside with the soured<ref>Lit. turned as in “soured” or “embittered”.</ref> or anger cut<ref>''Zornhau''.</ref> to him, and if he wants to strike around with the work, then put it in front of his neck after. So too you can do all the pieces that are like the launches.</p>
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<p>When you are in high guard and someone strikes towards you with the work, if you strike inside with the soured<ref>Lit. turned as in “soured” or “embittered”.</ref> or anger cut<ref>Zornhau.</ref> to him, and if he wants to strike around with the work, then put it in front of his neck after. So too can you perform all the pieces that are like the launches.</p>
 
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<p>When you defend and in defending from another you want at first to dispatch below your sword, move in at him with the long edge strong on top of his sword, and he is broken.</p>
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<p>When you defend and in defending from another you want to first dispatch below your sword, move into him with the long edge strongly on his sword, and he is broken.</p>
 
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<p>When you engage with someone and strike him with an anger cut or however from high to low and when he defends against you, reach out high with his arms, and both of you move in on one another. If he then wants to block or break your tip from below the hands in between to the arms, follow therefore his sword, pulling with the long edge, and press strongly down. Thus you have broken him.</p>
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<p>When you engage with someone and strike him with an anger cut or however from high to low and when he defends against you, reaching with his arms upwards, and when both of you move in on one another; if he then wants to block or break your tip from below the hands in between to the arms, therefore follow his sword, pulling with the long edge, and press strongly down. Thus you have broken him.</p>
 
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<p>Or when you come with the arms high and another does too and runs in at you: if he wants with the pommel through your arms and below your hips to bash into your face or the chest. So move in with the pommel strongly below your hands and in pulling towards yourself, and strike with the sword on his head.</p>
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<p>Or when you come with the arms high and another does too and runs in at you, if he wants with the pommel through your arms and below your hips to bash into your face or the chest; then move in with the pommel strongly below your hands. And in pulling towards yourself, strike with the sword on his head.</p>
 
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Revision as of 21:36, 10 March 2022

Stuck im aufstreichen
Play in the sweeping-upon
Paurenfeyndt 6.jpg
Ascribed to
Date early 1500s (?)
Language
State of Existence Original hypothetical, several copies exist
Manuscript(s)
First Printed
English Edition
Tobler, 2001
Concordance by Michael Chidester
Translations

Stuck im aufstreichen ("Play in the sweeping-upon") is a brief German fencing manual from the early 16th century. The author of this treatise is unknown, though it has been variously attributed to Sigmund ain Ringeck (due to its presence in the MS Dresd.C.487, which was once erroneously attributed to Ringeck) and Andre Paurenfeyndt (who includes it in his treatment of long sword fencing, but who also borrows from other authors like Andre Lignitzer without attribution).

It consists of several plays of fencing with the two-handed sword, primarily from a low guard called iron gate or side guard, and it both mentions the Recital and shows familiarity with the principles of Liechtenauer's fencing. The iron gate is also discussed in an earlier treatise by Andres Juden, Hans Döbringer, Jobs von der Nissen, and Nicklass Preußen, but there is little technical overlap between the two works (though both treatises are included in MS E.1939.65.341).

The oldest known copies of this work are two manuscripts from the early 16th century, MS Dresd.C.487 (1504-19) and MS E.1939.65.341 (1508). It was also published by Freifechter Andre Paurenfeyndt in 1516 as the final section of the teachings on the two-handed sword in his treatise Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey ("Foundation of the Chivalric Art of Swordplay").[1] (Paurenfeyndt's text would be reprinted by Christian Egenolff four times between 1531 and 1558,[2] transcribed by Lienhart Sollinger into the Cod. Ⅰ.6.2º.2 in 1564,[3] and translated to Middle French and printed by Willem Vorsterman in 1538.[4])

Treatise

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
  • Lindholm, David and Svard, Peter. Sigmund Ringeck's Knightly Art of the Longsword. Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 2003. ISBN 978-1-58160-410-8
  • Tobler, Christian Henry. Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship. Highland Village, TX: Chivalry Bookshelf, 2001. ISBN 1-891448-07-2
  • Wierschin, Martin. Meister Johann Liechtenauers Kunst des Fechtens. München: Beck, 1965.

References

  1. Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey is internally dated on page 78.
  2. The first three printings of Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst are undated, but the first edition must have been produced between 1531, when Egenolff set up his shop in Frankfurt-am-Main, and artist Hans Weiditz' death in 1537; the second and third editions were released some time before Egenolff's own death in 1555. The only dated edition was published by Egenolff's heirs in 1558 (see page 47v).
  3. The material in Cod. Ⅰ.6.2º.2 based on Paurenfeyndt is internally dated on folio 71r
  4. La noble science des ioueurs d'espee is internally dated on page 70.
  5. D. nebenhůtten: "side-guard"; G. Eysenen pfort, "iron-gate"; P. uses both interchangeably in this section.
  6. streichn.
  7. D. "Here note to fence from the side-guards, that is, also the sweeps"; P. "Play in the sweeping-upon".
  8. wiewohl.
  9. G. "Item. Know that one shall execute the sweeps from the iron-gate from the left side because it is not as certain from the right."
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 10.9 Title omitted from Dresden and Glasgow.
  11. 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 11.12 11.13 11.14 11.15 11.16 11.17 Word omitted from Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  12. Clause omitted from the Dresden and Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  13. P. "from his right shoulder".
  14. wiederhalten: lit. "hold against"; "to withstand, resist".
  15. einduplieren.
  16. 16.0 16.1 P. "ear".
  17. "As before" omitted from Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  18. "-Around quickly" omitted from Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 Word omitted from the Glasgow.
  20. "The man and the sword" replaced by "his" in Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  21. G. "the".
  22. 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 22.6 Word omitted from the Dresden.
  23. 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 23.5 Word omitted from the Dresden and the Glasgow.
  24. "And low with the hands" omitted from the Glasgow.
  25. "-In straight" omitted from the Dresden and Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  26. "At hand" omitted from Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  27. Clause omitted from the Dresden.
  28. 28.0 28.1 28.2 Clause omitted from the Glasgow.
  29. D. "the".
  30. "To your left side" omitted from the Glasgow.
  31. "Off from the sword and strike" omitted from the Dresden.
  32. D. haüpt, G. kopf.
  33. "You lay… guard, or" omitted from the Dresden and the Glasgow.
  34. stoß; this could either be to stab him or hit him.
  35. "Him under his sword" omitted from the Dresden and Glasgow.
  36. 36.0 36.1 Word omitted from the Dresden and Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  37. P. farñ: "drive".
  38. Lit. “Pass in change.”
  39. "Side of" omitted from the Dresden and Glasgow.
  40. "Behind his neck" omitted from Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  41. Marginalia: The word schrit ("a step") appears over the word "sword" in the Dresden, and schret ("a step or make a step") appears under.
  42. obenauf.
  43. D. "opposite".
  44. "As before (to all sides)" omitted from the Dresden and the Glasgow.
  45. P. "Fencing".
  46. 46.0 46.1 Word omitted from the Glasgow and Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  47. "In front" omitted from the Dresden.
  48. Alternately: "parrying(s)".
  49. 49.0 49.1 I.e. closing-in. It is not "the nach" (after) because nach is neuter and would be das nach. G. also writes die neche. næhe could also be "the boat".
  50. Corrected from »dem«.
  51. Corrected from »dim«.
  52. P. "Side guard".
  53. "And from… stands forward" omitted from Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  54. Sentence omitted from the Dresden and the Glasgow.
  55. P. "Play from the side guard".
  56. 56.0 56.1 Clause omitted from the Dresden and the Glasgow.
  57. Likely translating “verkerer” as “bailiff”.
  58. P. "Explanation of the advice".
  59. "With that" omitted from Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  60. P. "convenient".
  61. P. "then escape afterwards".
  62. "Bind on" omitted from the Dresden and the Glasgow.
  63. 63.0 63.1 63.2 Clause omitted from Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  64. "To the other side" omitted from Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey.
  65. P. "So thwart in before to his neck".
  66. Lit. turned as in “soured” or “embittered”.
  67. Zornhau.
  68. P. "Another".
  69. P. "From the wrath-cut".
  70. "Fence someone and if [you]" omitted from the Dresden and the Glasgow.
  71. "With the wrath-cut or otherwise" omitted from the Dresden and the Glasgow.
  72. P. "arms".
  73. D., G. "will take".
  74. Sic, lit. "you".
  75. "And move… his head" omitted from the Dresden and the Glasgow.
  76. Corrected from »dinem«.