Codex Speyer (MS M.I.29)

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Codex Speyer
	MS M.I.29, Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg; Salzburg, Austria
Type	Fencing manual
Date	1491
Language(s)	Early New High German
Author(s)	Martin Huntfeltz ; Jud Lew ; Johannes Lecküchner Johannes Liechtenauer ; Andre Liegniczer ; Ott Jud ; Martin Syber ;
Scribe(s)	Hans von Speyer
Material	Paper, in a modern binding
Size	158 folia
Format	Double-sided, with red and black ink
Script	Bastarda
Treatise scans	Digital scans (750x1000)
Other translations	Traduction française

The MS M.I.29 is a German fencing manual compiled in 1491 by Hans von Speyer.^[1] The original currently rests in the holdings of the Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg in Salzburg, Austria. It is important to note that Hans von Speyer was a scribe, not a master, and the book is a compilation text consisting of treatises on a variety of martial topics, by several different masters who stood in the tradition of Johannes Liechtenauer. This treatise is the first to include the works of Martin Syber and Johannes Lecküchner with the Liechtenauer tradition.

Provenance

English Translation by Michael Chidester	Transcription by Dierk Hagedorn
[In a different hand, written in pencil] V.I.H 159 [Owner's mark.] Canon of the Church of the Berchtesgaden Kings[?] 1665	[Von anderer Hand in Bleistift geschrieben.] V.I.H 159 [Besitzervermerk.] Eccl[es]ie Berchtolsgad[en]sis Can Reg 1665