The title of this article contains the character º. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Codex Lew (Cod.I.6.4o.3).
The Codex Ⅰ.6.4º.3 is a German fencing manual created in the mid 15th century.[1] The original currently rests in the holdings of the Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg in Augsburg, Germany. This manuscript is commonly attributed to Lew, though in fact the text only cites him as author of a few of its sections (mostly erroneously).[2] The rest of the manuscript is an anonymous compilation text consisting of treatises on a variety of martial topics by several different masters who stood in the tradition of Johannes Liechtenauer. This manuscript may have been a source for Paulus Hector Mair's 16th century compendia.
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Additional Resources
- Hagedorn, Dierk. Jude Lew: Das Fechtbuch. VS-Books, 2017. ISBN 978-3-932077-46-3
- Jaquet, Daniel. “The collection of Lew the Jew in the lineage of German Fight Books corpus”. Acta Periodica Duellatorum 5(1):151–191. April 2017. doi:10.1515/apd-2017-0004.
- Jaquet, Daniel; Walczak, Bartłomiej. "Liegnitzer, Hundsfeld or Lew? The question of authorship of popular Medieval fighting teachings". Acta Periodica Duellatorum 2(1): 105-148. 2014. doi:10.1515/apd-2015-0015.
- Verelst, Karin. "Finding a Way through the Labyrinth: Some Methodological Remarks on Critically Editing the Fight Book Corpus". Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books. Transmission and Tradition of Martial Arts in Europe: 117-188. Ed. Daniel Jaquet, Karin Verelst, and Timothy Dawson. History of Warfare 112. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016. doi:10.1163/9789004324725_008
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