Oplodidaskalia sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri (Cod.1246)

Οπλοδιδασκαλια sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri
Location unknown
Hagedorn Leng —
Wierschin — Hils 13
Type	Fencing manual Wrestling manual
Date	between 1600 and 1620
Language(s)	Early New High German
Author(s)	Andre Paurñfeyndt Unknown
Scribe(s)	Unknown
Illustrator(s)	Hans Brosamer (?)
Material	Paper, in a modern leather binding
Size	181 folia
Format	Double-sided; illustrations with text
Script	Bastarda
Exemplar(s)	MS 26-232 (1512) Der Altern Fechter anfengliche kunst (?) (1530s)
Previously kept	Universitätsbibliothek Breslau, Wrocław, Poland

The correct title of this article is Οπλοδιδασκαλια sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri (Cod.1246). The absence of Greek characters is because of technical restrictions.

Οπλοδιδασκαλια sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri ("Weapon Training, or Albrecht Dürer's Meditation on the Handling of Weapons", Codex 1246) is German fencing manual created between 1600 and 1620, copied from a variety of earlier sources. Dörnhöffer's 1910 edition places the manuscript at the Universitätsbibliothek Breslau in what is now Wrocław, Poland; it was lost during World War II, and its current location is unknown. Based on Dörnhöffer's analysis, it seems that this manuscript is a compilation of Albrecht Dürer's 1512 fencing manual, selections from Christian Egenolff's Der Altenn Fechter anfengliche kunst, and sundry other items.

Contents

This table of contents is extrapolated from Dörnhöffer's analysis of the manuscript. Any mistakes are probably due to a lack of clarity in either his description or the translation from German to English.

1r - 3v	Front matter
4r - 14v	Longsword teachings by Andre Paurñfeyndt via Egenolff
15r	Diagram of anatomy of the sword
22r - 81v	Grappling teachings from the Nuremberg tradition via Albrecht Dürer
82r - 85v	Various teachings from the Nuremberg tradition via Albrecht Dürer
86r - 104v	Various teachings from Der Altern Fechter
110r - 122v	Messer teachings from Der Altern Fechter
148r - 156v	Various teachings from Der Altern Fechter"
158r - 168v	"Adeliches Exercitium des Piquenspieß"
169r - 180v	Gloss of Liechtenauer's Bloßfechten by pseudo-Peter von Danzig (?)
181r	Epitaph

Gallery

Dörnhöffer's edition of the MS 26-232 includes the following sample images from the Codex 1246.

Folio 1r (?)

Folio 22r

Folio 22v

Folio 91r

Folio 91v

Additional Resources

• Dörnhöffer, Friedrich. "Albrecht Dürers Fechtbuch". Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses. Vienna: 1909. pp 300-462.
• Dörnhöffer, Friedrich. Albrecht Dürers Fechtbuch. Vienna: F. Tempsky, 1910.
• Dürer, Albrecht and Wassmannsdorff, Karl. Die Ringkunst des deutschen Mittelalters. Liepzig: Priber, 1870.
• Strauss, Walter L. The complete drawings of Albrecht Dürer. New York: Abaris Books, 1974. ISBN 0913870005

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