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Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst (Christian Egenolff)
Der Altenn Fechter anfengliche Kunst | |
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The Ancient Fencer's Beginning Art | |
Title page of the first edition | |
Author(s) |
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Illustrated by | Hans Weiditz |
Place of origin | Frankfurt-am-Main |
Language | Early New High German |
Genre(s) | |
Sources | Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey (1516) |
Publisher | Christian Egenolff |
Publication date | 1531 - 1537 |
Pages | 94 |
Treatise scans |
Digital scans (1558)
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Der Altenn Fechter anfengliche Kunst ("The Ancient Fencer's Beginning Art") is a German fencing manual printed in the 16th century by Christian Egenolff. The text is largely a redaction of Andre Paurñfeyndt's earlier treatise Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey, but with significant unique material. Egenolff reset the text and hired noted Strasbourg artist Hans Weiditz to illustrate it.
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Publication History
The first three printings of Der Altenn Fechter anfengliche Kunst are undated, but the first edition must have been printed between 1531, when Egenolff set up his shop in Frankfurt-am-Main, and Weiditz' death in 1537. The second and third editions were released some time before Egenolff's own death in 1555; a copy of the second edition that recently came up for auction was dated to ca. 1535,[1] but this date seems speculative. In 1558, Egenolff's heirs published a fourth edition posthumously.[2]
In the 1600s, a fairly faithful manuscript including portions of both this text and Albrecht Dürer's OPLODIDASKALIA sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri was created by an unknown scribe (it has since been lost).
Contents
1r - 2v |
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2v - 3r | Twelve Rules for Beginning Fencers by Andre Paurñfeyndt | ||||||||||||||||
3r - 14r | Sword by Andre Paurñfeyndt | ||||||||||||||||
14v - 18r, 23r - 31r |
Messer by Hans Lebkommer (Johannes Lecküchner) | ||||||||||||||||
18r - 23r | Dussack by Andre Paurñfeyndt | ||||||||||||||||
31rv | Sword and buckler by Andre Lignitzer | ||||||||||||||||
31v - 32v | Dagger by Andre Lignitzer | ||||||||||||||||
32v - 35r | Anonymous dagger devices | ||||||||||||||||
35v - 43v | Anonymous grappling devices | ||||||||||||||||
44r - 56v | Staff by Andre Paurñfeyndt | ||||||||||||||||
57rv |
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Gallery
Title pages
Illustrations
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
- Jaquet, Daniel; Walczak, Bartłomiej. "Liegnitzer, Hundsfeld or Lew? The question of authorship of popular Medieval fighting teachings". Acta Periodica Duellatorum 2(1): 105-148. 2014. doi:10.1515/apd-2015-0015.
References
- ↑ [Lecküchner]. Der Allten Fechter Gründtliche. Live Auctioneers. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
- ↑ According to page XLVIIv of the fourth edition.
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 | Hans Weiditz | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | |
Transcription | Michael Chidester | Index:Der Altenn Fechter anfengliche kunst (Christian Egenolff) |