Debrecener Ringbuch (MS R.605)

Debrecener Ringbuch
MS R.605, Tiszántúli Református Egyházkerület Nagykönyvtár Debrecen, Hungary
Folio 140v
Hagedorn — Leng —
Wierschin — Hils —
Type	Wrestling manual
Date	1469-1474
Language(s)	Early New High German
Author(s)	Unknown
Compiler	Unknown
Material	Paper in a blind-tooled leather cover
Size	140 folia (110 mm x 78 mm)
Format	Double-sided, with black and red ink
Script	Bastarda

The Debrecener Ringbuch (MS R.605) is miscellanea manuscript containing a German wrestling manual, created between 1469 and 1474. The original currently rests in the holdings of the Tiszántúli Református Egyházkerület Nagykönyvtár in Debrecen, Hungary. This manuscript consists mostly of recipes for food, medicine, dyes, and other useful chemicals. The back side of the final folio contains the wrestling teachings.

Contents

1r - 32v	Various Latin and German recipes, mostly for dyeing
33r - 73v	Excerpts from Gottfried von Franken's fur book
73v - 116v	Recipes for cooking
110r - 112r	Esdra's prophecies (in Latin)
114r - 116r	Treatise on brandy
117r - 130r	Recipes for dying
133r - 140r	"Horse pharmacopeia" (Rossarzneibuch) by Master Albrant
140v	Anonymous grappling teachings (Zulaufenden ringen) No Translation Transcription by Antti Ijäs [140v.1] Regule ad luctandum Prima val mitt dem rechten armm vnder sein Tencken vnd dem rechten oben vber sein tenken vnd chum ÿm mit dem tencken ze hilf vnd wirff yn vber dÿ huff. [140v.2] Val mit dem Tencken armm zwischen payder paÿn vnd nÿm In mit der rechten handt peÿ seinen tencken pain zuchkt er das pain so nÿm das ringen peÿ dem haupp. [140v.3] Vall mit deiner rechten handt durch sein payd pain vnd greyff ÿm In ars vnd zeuch In zu dir vnd setz ÿem dein tencke handt auf sein prust vnd tauch ÿn von dir

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Folio 140v

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.

• Ijäs, Antti (2023). "Anonymes Bruchstück einer Ringlehre der Debrecener Handschrift R. 605." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 124(2): 127-139. doi:10.51814/nm.115857.

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