Lições de Marte (MS 49.III.6)

Lições de Marte
MS 49.Ⅲ.6, Biblioteca da Ajuda Lisbon, Portugal
(No scans available)
Hagedorn — Leng —
Wierschin — Hils —
Type	Fencing manual
Date	late 17th century
Place of origin	Iberia
Language(s)	Portuguese
Material	Paper, in a Dutch binding
Size	217 folia (quarto)

The title of this article contains the characters ç and õ. Where they are unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Licoes de Marte (MS 49.III.6).

MS 49.Ⅲ.6 is a manuscript containing the works Lições de Marte ("Lessons of Mars") and Manuscrito da espada ("Manuscript on the Sword"), two anonymous Iberian fencing manuals written in the latter part of the 17th century. It currently rests in the holdings of the Biblioteca da Ajuda in Lisbon, Portugal.

Anonymous work contained in a little known manuscript of the Biblioteca da Ajuda. A vision of the Destreza in Portugal in the XVII century with elements from the Verdadera Destreza and from the ordinary or Vulgar. 64 feridas (techniques) explained with their counter-techniques. Some of them were previously unknown, like the parafusada or the wound of the Duke of Alba. With comments and glosses. Accessible language although basic knowledge of Destreza is necessary.

This seldom known work, which is kept at the Biblioteca da Ajuda as 49 -III- 6, is bound in a book together with the previously unpublished Manuscrito da Espada, also in our catalogue.

This is a re-interpretation of Pacheco's posthumous work, Nueva Ciencia. Beyond completing it with missing information, such as the lost engravings not present in the published version of Pacheco's book, the author took an eminently practical approach, didactic in purpose, dividing the book in «Liçoes» (Lessons), each preceded with an illustrative engraving, introducing progressively new concepts, from theoretical geometric elements to steps and footwork, to techniques such as the atalho or the movement of conclusion. This approach makes this book one of the best options when looking for a whole, comprehensive Destreza textbook.

Contents

1 - 181	Lições de Marte
185 - 217	Manuscrito da espada

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.

• Manuscrito da espada: Biblioteca da Ajuda 49-III-6(2) (2013). Trans. by Diniz Cabreira and Diego Conde Eguileta. Ed. by Manuel Valle and Ton Puey. Santiago de Compostela: AGEA Editora. ISBN 978-84-940366.
• Lições de Marte: Biblioteca da Ajuda 49-III-6(1) (2013). Ed. by Manuel Valle and Laksmy Irigoyen Regueiro. Santiago de Compostela: AGEA Editora. ISBN 978-84-16121-11-3.

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