Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica (Cod.icon. 393)

Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica
Cod.icon. 393, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, Germany
Hagedorn Leng —
Wierschin — Hils 34
Type	Fencing manual Wrestling manual
Date	ca. 1540s
Place of origin	Augsburg, Germany
Language(s)	New Latin
Author(s)	Fabian von Auerswald Gregor Erhart Martin Huntfeltz Jörg Wilhalm Hutter Paulus Kal Johannes Lecküchner Jud Lew Johannes Liechtenauer Andre Liegniczer Paulus Hector Mair Ott Jud
Compiler	Paulus Hector Mair
Scribe(s)	Unknown
Illustrator(s)	Jörg Breu the Younger
Material	Paper, in a leather binding
Size	2 volumes; 310 and 305 folia
Format	Varies
Script	Humanist
Exemplar(s)	Cod.10825/10826 (1540s)
External data	Library catalog entry (vol 1/vol 2)
Treatise scans	Digital scans (vol 1/vol 2) (950x1350)

The Codex Icononografico 393 is a two-volume 16th century German manuscript commissioned by Paulus Hector Mair and commonly dated to the 1540s.^{[citation needed]} They currently rest in the holdings of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, Germany. Illustrated by the renowned painter Jörg Breu the Younger and produced at great personal expense, this manuscript is one of the three versions of Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica, Mair's enormous compendium of martial arts teachings.

Contents

Volume 1

1r - 16v	Introduction by Paulus Hector Mair
17r - 77v, 165r - 167r	Longsword by Paulus Hector Mair (inc. pseudo-Gladiatoria and the Nuremberg group)
78r - 80v	Index No Translation Transcription
81r - 96v	Gloss of Liechtenauer's Bloßfechten by Pseudo-Peter von Danzig
97r - 98v	Index No Translation Transcription
99r - 121v, 169r, 170v - 171r, 172v - 173r, 174v	Dussack by Paulus Hector Mair
122r - 123r	Index No Translation Transcription
124r - 151r	Messer by Johannes Lecküchner
151v - 152r	Index No Translation Transcription
153r - 162v	Short Staff by Paulus Hector Mair
163r - 163v	Index No Translation Transcription
165v - 188v, 217r - 223v	Long Staff and mixed weapons (intermingled) by Paulus Hector Mair
175r, 176v, 178v	Side Sword and Dagger by Paulus Hector Mair
179r, 180v, 181r, 182v - 183r, 184v	Dagger by Paulus Hector Mair
185r, 191r - 202v	Pole Weapons by Paulus Hector Mair
189r - 190r, 202rv	Index No Translation Transcription
203r - 208v	Scythe by Paulus Hector Mair
209r - 212v	Flail by Paulus Hector Mair
213r - 216v	Peasant Staff by Paulus Hector Mair
223r - 224r	Index No Translation Transcription
225r - 234v	Sickle by Paulus Hector Mair
234rv	Index No Translation Transcription
168v, 236r - 288v	Grappling by Paulus Hector Mair (inc. Fabian von Auerswald, Gregor Erhart, pseudo-Gladiatoria, and Kunstlicher stuck Kämpffens Ringens und Werffens)
289r - 291v	Index No Translation Transcription
292r - 301r	Grappling by Ott Jud
301r - 309r	Anonymous dagger treatise
309rv	Index No Translation Transcription