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| '''Here I will teach fencing from the straight crown.'''
 
| '''Here I will teach fencing from the straight crown.'''
Item. Go up with a thrust so you come into the crown. When you stand in the crown, strike around and hew a strong over-hew and draw back against in the crown and always withdraw with the back foot. You may stab or strike from the crown, hew a over-hew and  a under-hew and the over-change. Then if you gladly wish, strike-around and withdraw in the under-guard and may again change or thrust, whichever you wish.
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Item. Go up with a thrust so you come into the crown. When you stand in the crown, strike around and hew a strong over-hew and draw back again in the crown and always withdraw with the back foot. You may stab or strike from the crown, hew a over-hew and  a under-hew and the over-change. Then if you gladly wish, strike-around and withdraw in the under-guard and may again change or thrust, whichever you wish.
 
| '''Item hie wil ich leren wechten us der schlechten kron'''
 
| '''Item hie wil ich leren wechten us der schlechten kron'''
 
Item gan uf mit i stich so kunst du in die kron wen du in der kron stäst so schlach umb und how i starken ober how und zuch wider in die kron und zuch alweg ab mit dem hinder fuoß du macht us der kron stechen oder schlahen so macht howen ober how und under how und den ober wechsel wit du den gern so schlach umb und zuch in die under huot so macht aber wechslen oder stechen weders du wit
 
Item gan uf mit i stich so kunst du in die kron wen du in der kron stäst so schlach umb und how i starken ober how und zuch wider in die kron und zuch alweg ab mit dem hinder fuoß du macht us der kron stechen oder schlahen so macht howen ober how und under how und den ober wechsel wit du den gern so schlach umb und zuch in die under huot so macht aber wechslen oder stechen weders du wit

Revision as of 13:40, 23 November 2015

Hugo Wittenwiler
Born 15th century
Died 15th century (?)
Ethnicity German
Genres
Language Allemanic
Manuscript(s) Cgm 558 (ca. 1493)
First printed
english edition
Hull, 2008
Translations
Signature Wittenwiller Sig.png

Hugo Wittenwiler (Hugonis dicti Wittenwiller, Hugues Wittenwiler) was a 15th century German scribe and presumed author of a fencing manual. The Wittenwiler family originated as low nobility from Wittenwil in the modern canton of Thurgau, Switzerland, but were destitute by 1339. Hugo Wittenwiler was likely a member of the Toggenburg branch of the family, living in Toggenburg, Lichtenstein, or Wil. Other than this, little can be determined about his life.

In the latter part of the 15th century, Wittenwiler wrote a multiweapon fencing treatise that shows little or no connection to the tradition of Johannes Liechtenauer. Though he is often credited as the author of this treatise, he was likely merely its scribe.[1] This treatise now forms part of the larger manuscript Cgm 558.

Treatise

Additional Resources

References

  1. See folio 141r.
  2. wenden will be translated as: turning the hand/body or winding the sword
  3. daraufspringen
  4. twisted, obliquely, crooked, curved
  5. In the text: `ze glich` zergleich, zugleich
  6. constrained
  7. direct, perpendicular or right(handed)
  8. direct, perpendicular or right(handed)
  9. possibly ‘to the right’, straight, perpendicular
  10. simple
  11. ansetzen: impale
  12. this is possibly a scribal error or synonym for Nachreisen
  13. angle
  14. Turnable, mutable, inconstant; fickle; Slavic
  15. alt: continually
  16. auftrechen. `trechen` is a strong class IVa verb. `Ich triche`, `Du trichest`. It means here `to pull into the air`, `to put into motion`
  17. I believe that this underlined passage is a scribal error. Read it with out the parentheticals and it makes much more sense
  18. turn
  19. also: cut open, to chop down a tree,
  20. also: oblique, curved, twisted
  21. behänden: sw. V.: nhd. berühren, betasten, einrichten, fügen, einhändigen, auferlegen
  22. grimm: unterschlagen 2
  23. surround
  24. aufschlachen? -strike upon
  25. left?
  26. in a superior position to, on the back of your neck.
  27. turn
  28. cut-off
  29. straight, perpendicular or right(handed)
  30. alt: in front of
  31. weapons
  32. possibly seek or desire
  33. possibly: legs
  34. possibly: "to the other side"
  35. The two dots around the 'y' can demarcate the 'slot' where additive/subtractive enumeration occurs. The 'y' can be parsed as a '5' if it is an arabic numeral. This sort of mixing did occur and this would give us a value of 1503. That seems the most reasonable. There are other ways to parse it that make no sense, that give it something like 1153 or 1203. Baselards weren't a thing back then, the script wasn't in use back then either. It's technically possible that one or more of the dots are v's and that would give us something like 1408. I found some research on hunting of the period that cites this manuscript and says the hunting and falconry sections are in line with terms from the late 14 to the mid late 15th. All that being said, a late 15thC dating is quite reasonable.
  36. The 9th of September is the day after.