Reit und Turnierbuch (MS 23.279)

Reit und Turnierbuch
MS 23.279, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, New York
Hagedorn Leng —
Wierschin — Hils —
Type	Fencing manual Wrestling manual
Date	1838
Place of origin	Innsbruck, Austria
Language(s)	Early New High German
Author(s)	Federico Grisone Jörg Wilhalm Hutter
Compiler	Jeremias Schemel von Augsburg
Scribe(s)	Friedrich Otto von Leber
Illustrator(s)	Friedrich Otto von Leber
Material	Paper
Size	(476 mm x 342 mm)
Exemplar(s)	MS KK5247
External data	Museum catalog entry

Reit und Turnierbuch ("Riding and Tournament Book"; MS 23.279) is an 1838 copy of a German fencing manual created in the 16th century by Jeremias Schemel von Augsburg. The original currently rests in the holdings of Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, NY. This manuscript consists of various treatises on riding and dressage, including a German translation of the work of Federico Grisone, as well as an extensive tournament book and Jörg Wilhalm Hutter's teachings on mounted and dismounted dueling. It was copied from the MS KK5247 in 1838 by Friedrich Otto von Leber.

Contents

The Met indicates that this manuscript is a partial copy of the KK5247, the contents of which are placed below. It is unclear at this time how much of the manuscript was included in this copy.

1r - 57r	Treatises on dressage by Federico Grisone
57v - 83r	Treatise on jousting
83v - 110v	Armored fencing by Jörg Wilhalm Hutter
111r - 133r, 148v - 192r	Mounted fencing by Jörg Wilhalm Hutter
134v - 147r, 193v - 222r	Mounted fencing by Antonius Rast
223r - 340r	Treatise on tournaments

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