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.
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Contents
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Draft Translation 
by Michael Chidester
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Transcription
by Dierk Hagedorn
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[In a different hand, written in pencil]
V.I.H
159
[Owner's mark.]
Canon of the Church of the Berchtesgaden Kings[?] 1665
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[Von anderer Hand in Bleistift geschrieben.]
V.I.H
159
[Besitzervermerk.]
Eccl[es]ie Berchtolsgad[en]sis Can Reg 1665
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Recital on long sword fencing by Martin Syber
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| 3r
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Anonymous poem on swordsmanship
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| 5r - 7r
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Comparison of long sword and messer terminology by Andreas
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| 10r - 44r
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Gloss of Liechtenauer's Recital on long sword fencing by Pseudo-Peter von Danzig
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| 46r - 117r
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Gloss of the Recital on the Messer by Johannes Lecküchner
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| 119r - 126v
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Grappling by Ott Jud
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| 129r - 130r
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Recital on short sword fencing by Johannes Liechtenauer
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| 130r - 134v
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Short sword fencing by Martin Huntfeltz (attributed to Jud Lew)
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| 134v - 136v
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Armored grappling by Martin Huntfeltz (attributed to Jud Lew)
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| 137r - 141r
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Short sword fencing by Andre Liegniczer (attributed to Martin Huntfeltz)
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| 143r - 158r
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Gloss of Liechtenauer's Recital on mounted fencing by Pseudo-Peter von Danzig
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