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| <p>Then, if someone thrusts below to your legs, you must take this out with your blade hanging, and step forth with your right foot, changing with [your] blade to his groin.</p> | | <p>Then, if someone thrusts below to your legs, you must take this out with your blade hanging, and step forth with your right foot, changing with [your] blade to his groin.</p> | ||
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+ | | <p>In this guard, indicated with the numbers 3 and 6,<ref>Note that the illustration on page 10r shows a fencer standing with his feet on numbers 4 and 5.</ref> at the outset, in this play, you must note that you attack with a full thrust to your adversary’s right side, and afterwards, with a movement of your right foot to number 6, complete the thrust over his blade to his face, or to his left breast if you want to direct your blade under his arm.</p> | ||
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+ | | <p>When [you]<ref>German: ''eer''.</ref> let the blade run off, always remember to set your dagger at your blade, to thus be secure from your adversary’s actions.</p> | ||
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+ | | <p>Secondly, when you deliver a thrust to the right breast, you can, with a movement of your right foot to number 6, strike through below to his legs, though such that you are well covered against his blade with your dagger.</p> | ||
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+ | | <p>Thirdly, in this guard indicated with numbers 3 and 6, you can also stand with your rapier extended, and when your opponent directs a cut to your left, take this out<ref>Alternatively, this could be “and when your opponent directs a cut, take this out to your left”.</ref> with your blade hanging, and with a movement of your fist direct a strike to his legs with the advantage of stepping to.</p> | ||
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+ | | <p>Fourthly, in this guard, when your counterpart stands with his rapier extended, you can take out or gain his point with your dagger, and immediately attack with a sudden thrust to his breast or groin.</p> | ||
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Revision as of 00:05, 18 March 2024
Hugold Behr's Fechtbuch | |||||
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MS Var.83, Universitätsbibliothek Rostock Rostock, Germany | |||||
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Type | Fencing manual | ||||
Date | Before 1573 | ||||
Language(s) | Early New High German | ||||
Author(s) | Unknown | ||||
Scribe(s) | Unknown | ||||
Material | Paper | ||||
Size | 51 folia (160 mm × 200 mm) | ||||
Format | Text with scattered illustrations | ||||
Script | Cursive | ||||
External data | Library catalog entry | ||||
Treatise scans | Digital scans |
Hugold Behr's Fechtbuch (MS var. 83) is an anonymous 16th century German fencing manual created some time before 1573.[1] The original currently rests in the holdings of the Universitätsbibliothek Rostock in Rostock, Germany. It was previously owned by Hugold Behr the Elder, from whom it takes its nickname, but its original author and artist are unknown.
Contents
Provenance
Contents
1r - 39r |
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40v - 51r | Illustrations of human figures |
Gallery
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.
- Bauer, Matthias Johannes (2007). "Die unbekannte illustrierte Fechthandschrift des Hugold Behr. Vorbemerkungen zur Edition von Rostock UB Mss. Var. 83." Medium Aevum Quotidianum 55: 80-85.
- Bauer, Matthias Johannes (2020). "The Fight Book of Hugold Behr: A Late Sixteenth-Century Fight Book in Comparative Perspective." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 8(1): 89-104. doi:10.36950/apd-2020-006.
References
- ↑ Bauer, Matthias Johannes. "The Fight Book of Hugold Behr: A Late Sixteenth-Century Fight Book in Comparative Perspective". Acta Periodica Duellatorum 8(1). 2020. pp 89-90
- ↑ Note, that here the original reads “that your left foot must stand on the 2, and your right behind on the 3”. Based on the illustration, this is incorrect, interchanging “2” and “3”, and this was corrected in the translation presented here.
- ↑ Here, an alternative translation for im geleichen could be “at the same time”.
- ↑ In the previous guard, as well as in the image preceding the current lesson, the fencer stands on 2 and 3, rather than 3 and 6. However, in the previous lessons, the fencer does step with his right foot from 2 to 6.
- ↑ In the manuscript, this line is followed by a 3, the meaning of which is unclear.
- ↑ Note that the illustration on page 10r shows a fencer standing with his feet on numbers 4 and 5.
- ↑ German: eer.
- ↑ Alternatively, this could be “and when your opponent directs a cut, take this out to your left”.
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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Images | Universitätsbibliothek Rostock | Universitätsbibliothek Rostock | |
Translation | Reinier van Noort | Ensis et Mente | |
Transcription | Matthias Johannes Bauer | Index:Hugold Behr's Fechtbuch (MS Var.83) |