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| <p>[1] '''The''' first chapter teaches how one should employ expertise in the long sword, whichever is used with both hands, such as the battle sword, riding sword, estoc, and many others which I will for brevity's sake leave out.</p>
 
| <p>[1] '''The''' first chapter teaches how one should employ expertise in the long sword, whichever is used with both hands, such as the battle sword, riding sword, estoc, and many others which I will for brevity's sake leave out.</p>
| <p>'''Here begins a very beautiful bo'''ok containing the knightly science of swordsmen, for learning to fence with the two-handed sword and other similar swords which are used with two hands; also including braquemards and other short knives which are used with one hand; half-lance, guisarme, and similar polearms; daggers; and buckler.</p>
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| <p>'''Here begins a very beautiful bo'''ok containing the knightly science of swordsmen, for learning to fence with the two-handed sword and other similar swords which are used with both hands; also including braquemards and other short knives which are used with one hand; half-lance, guisarme, and similar polearms; daggers; and buckler.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Battle piece'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Battle piece'''</p>
  
<p>Move as before: take the blade of your sword with your left hand on the middle, and thrust to his face so that he must gather himself to endure the attack. Follow him with a step, and remove your left hand from the sword. From this take your pommel over to his two hands, and put the edge on his neck. Thus you hurl him over your legs.</p>
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<p>Move as before: take the blade of your sword with your left hand on the middle, and thrust to his face so that he must gather himself to endure the attack. Follow him with a step, and remove your left hand from the sword. From this take your pommel over both of his hands, and put the edge on his neck. Thus you hurl him over your legs.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Raise cross to cross'''</p>
 
| <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 over his 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 over both of his 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 stretches into the long point on the cross in front of you, push the pommel of your sword over 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 stretches into the long point on the cross in front of you, push the pommel of your sword over the hilt of his sword between both of his 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>'''Battle piece.'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Battle piece.'''</p>
  
<p>Thrust inwards at him towards his face and pass over, and also thrust him outwards to his face. If he defends that, advance with your left foot between his two legs and pass with the pommel over his left leg to bend his knee. And raise him up with this pommel, pushing him with your shoulder above. Thus he will fall.</p>
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<p>Thrust inwards at him towards his face and pass over, and also thrust him outwards to his face. If he defends that, advance with your left foot between both of his legs and pass with the pommel over his left leg to bend his knee. And raise him up with this pommel, pushing him with your shoulder above. Thus he will fall.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Break'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Break'''</p>
  
<p>When someone wants to run in at you, move your right arm over his two arms and press him strongly against you with your arms and step with your right foot behind his and turn to your left side so that he will fall.</p>
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<p>When someone wants to run in at you, move your right arm over both of his arms and press him strongly against you with your arms and step with your right foot behind his and turn to your left side so that he will fall.</p>
 
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| class="noline" | <p>'''Take his sword'''</p>
 
| class="noline" | <p>'''Take his sword'''</p>
  
<p>When you have taken his sword to yours in your left hand and if he remains low with his arms, raise your pommel above his sword in front of his right hand and pull on your right side so that you remain with two swords.</p>
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<p>When you have taken his sword to yours in your left hand and if he remains low with his arms, raise your pommel above his sword in front of his right hand and pull on your right side so that you remain with both swords.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Another'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Another'''</p>
  
<p>If someone thrusts towards you from above with a knife or a dagger and when you have no weapon, if you stay straight and put your hands crossed one over the other, after advancing with your right hand up against his cut of the knife or dagger such that his hand in thrusting comes between your two hands.</p>
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<p>If someone thrusts towards you from above with a knife or a dagger and when you have no weapon, if you stay straight and put your hands crossed one over the other, after advancing with your right hand up against his cut of the knife or dagger such that his hand in thrusting comes between both of your hands.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Another'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Another'''</p>
  
<p>If someone thrusts from below towards you, then take his arm with two hands, then run over his arm by turning it. Thus you break his arms and take his knife.</p>
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<p>If someone thrusts from below towards you, then take his arm with both hands, then run over his arm by turning it. Thus you break his arms and take his knife.</p>
 
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| <p>[23] Seize their arm with both hands and wrench it around and turn yourself through to your right side and break their arm over your left shoulder.</p>
 
| <p>[23] Seize their arm with both hands and wrench it around and turn yourself through to your right side and break their arm over your left shoulder.</p>
| <p>Take his arm with your two hands and turn it. Then turn it over on your right side, and break his arm over the left shoulder.</p>
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| <p>Take his arm with both of your hands and turn it. Then turn it over on your right side, and break his arm over the left shoulder.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Another'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Another'''</p>
  
<p>Take his arm with your two hands, and step near him. Then turn yourself on your right side and break his arm over the chest.</p>
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<p>Take his arm with both of your hands, and step near him. Then turn yourself on your right side and break his arm over the chest.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Another'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Another'''</p>
  
<p>If he falls on his back, then take his legs with your two hands below his knees, taking them up, then fall with your knee between his legs on his testicles. Thus with his legs to one hand, do with surplus to your pleasure.</p>
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<p>If he falls on his back, then take his legs with both of your hands below his knees, taking them up, then fall with your knee between his legs on his testicles. Thus with his legs to one hand, do with surplus to your pleasure.</p>
 
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| <p>'''Move in'''</p>
 
| <p>'''Move in'''</p>
  
<p>When someone strikes you from the long edge, move so that he does not move into you unexpectedly. If he strikes a cut to a cut, take your sword with your left hand by the point and move in below his cut such that you really pressure his cut from the flock over and above the head, and move in entirely through the bend of his knee. Then quickly pull with your two hands towards you and he falls backwards on his head.</p>
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<p>When someone strikes you from the long edge, move so that he does not move into you unexpectedly. If he strikes a cut to a cut, take your sword with your left hand by the point and move in below his cut such that you really pressure his cut from the flock over and above the head, and move in entirely through the bend of his knee. Then quickly pull with both of your hands towards you and he falls backwards on his head.</p>
 
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Revision as of 23:28, 12 March 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. The word used is "coup", which could be translated as "attack", "cut", or "blow". In this context it is referring to the edge. Henceforth I will be translating it as "edge" instead.
  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. This is likely a typo as "passer dessoubz" is only used once. "Passer oultre" is used more frequently.
  10. This is likely another synonym for "passer oultre".
  11. 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
  12. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: so entplest er sich
  13. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: zuck vnd haw mit langer schneid nach
  14. alt: points, ends
  15. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: schwert mit dem knopf vnter dein recht uxñ
  16. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: schon, die stich trucke mit schnitten sy ab czucke
  17. This is the zwerch.
  18. This is the sprechfenster.
  19. Lit. “Pass in change.”
  20. Likely translating “verkerer” as “bailiff”.
  21. Lit. turned as in “soured” or “embittered”.
  22. Zornhau.
  23. Top cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: yglichs in dreu wunder
  24. Corrected from »lanngem«
  25. Possibly referring to the dussack.
  26. Text cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: vmbsunst vrsach halben er mag kain folling straich auff dich habñ
  27. Erreur d'impression?
  28. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: dar uber
  29. Bottom cut off; added from Paurnfeindt: arm
  30. Rephrasing of Ovid's "Cunctis qui placeat non credo quomodo vivat".
  31. Rephrasing of the proverb from Pliny, "ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret".
  32. Hieronymous Büttner