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| − | {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Gründtliche Beschreibung der… Kunst des Fechtens'' (Joachim Meyer)}}
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| − | | name = ''Gründtliche Beschreibung der…<br/>Kunst des Fechtens''
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| − | | subtitle = [[title::A Thorough Description of the… Art of Fencing]]
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| − | | ustcid1 = 660906
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| − | | ustclabel1 = 1570
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| − | | ustclabel2 = 1600
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| − | | full title = A Thorough Description of the Free, <br/>Chivalric, and Noble Art of Fencing, <br/>Showing Various Customary Defenses, <br/>Affected and Put Forth with Many <br/>Handsome and Useful Drawings
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| − | | author(s) = [[author::Joachim Meyer]]
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| − | | illustrated by = [[artist::Tobias Stimmer]]
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| − | | dedicated to = Johann Casimir
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| − | | place of origin = Strasbourg, Germany
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| − | | language = [[language::Early New High German]]
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| − | | genre = {{plainlist
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| − | | [[type::Fencing manual]]
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| − | | [[type::Wrestling manual]]
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| − | | [[Joachim Meyers Fechtbuch (MS Bibl. 2465)|MS Bibl. 2465]] (1561)
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| − | | [[Joachim Meyers Fäktbok (MS A.4º.2)|MS A.4°.2]] (1568)
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| − | | publisher = [[publisher::Thiebolt Berger]]
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| − | | pub_date = [[year::1570, 1600]]
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| − | | first English edition =
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| − | | pages = 433
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| − | | images = {{collapsible list
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| − | | [https://digital.ub.uni-leipzig.de/object/viewid/0000009663 Digital scans] (1570)
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| − | | [http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00020FDC00000000 Digital scans] (1570)
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| − | | [http://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/ppn1771972165 Digital scans] (1570)
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| − | | [http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn{{=}}urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-263028 Digital scans] (1570)
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| − | | [http://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-91042 Digital scans] (1570)
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| − | | [http://weburn.kb.se/eod/0520/NLS21A110520.pdf Digital scans] (1570)
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| − | | [http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/27568 Fgures only] (1570)
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| − | | [http://www.draupnirpress.com/CC/creativecommons.html Restored sword figures] (1570)
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| − | | [http://ub-goobi-pr.ub.uni-greifswald.de/goobi/ppnresolver/?PPN607461748 B&W photocopy] (1600)
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| − | | [http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/sites/default/files/assets/renaissance/lord/Meyer_1600.pdf B&W photocopy] (1600)
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| − | '''''Gründtliche Beschreibung der… Kunst des Fechtens''''' ("A Thorough Description of… the Art of Fencing") is a [[nationality::German]] [[fencing manual]] written by [[Joachim Meyer]] and printed in 1570. Building on his earlier 1560s works [[Joachim Meyers Fechtbuch (MS Bibl. 2465)|MS Bibl. 2465]] and [[Joachim Meyers Fäktbok (MS A.4º.2)|MS A.4°.2]], it is a complex, sophisticated treatise purporting to teach the entire art of fencing (something that Meyer claimed had never been done before), and represents a significant evolution of the art that [[Johannes Liechtenauer]] taught 150 years earlier. It treats the [[sword]], [[Dussack]], [[rapier]] (both single and with secondary weapons), [[dagger]] and wrestling, and various [[pole weapons]] including the short staff, halberd, and long staff (pike).
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| − | == Publication History ==
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| − | The first edition of ''Gründtliche Beschreibung der… Kunst des Fechtens'' was printed in Strasbourg by Thiebolt Berger in 1570, exactly one year before Meyer's death. A second edition was printed in Augsburg in 1600 by Michael Manger (under publisher Elte Millers), possibly arranged by his widow and her family; for this edition, the same woodblocks were used but the text was reset (and many small errors or variations were thus introduced). A third edition (based on the 1600) was prepared in 2011 by Wolfgang Landwehr, including digital reproductions of the illustrations and setting the text in a humanist font, and published in Herne by [[VS-Books]] under the title ''Joachim Meyer 1600: Transkription des Fechtbuchs 'Gründtliche Beschreibung der freyen Ritterlichen und Adelichen kunst des Fechtens'''; this edition was reissued in 2018. A fourth edition was prepared in 2021 by [[Michael Chidester]] and published by [[HEMA Bookshelf]]; this edition was created from digital scans of the 1570, including the painted Leipzig figures and annotated pages from several other copies.
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| − | According to some sources, there were other editions printed in 1590, 1610, and 1660,<ref>Schaer, Alfred. {{Google books|0egSAAAAYAAJ|Die altdeutschen fechter und spielleute: Ein beitrag zur deutschen culturgeschichte|page=76}}. K.J. Trübner, 1901. p 76.</ref><ref>Pollock, W. H., Grove, F. C., and Prévost, C. {{Google books|OXSZ8FjBfhkC|Fencing|page=267}}. London and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and co, 1897. pp 267-268.</ref> but no copies from these printings are known to exist and they are probably spurious (due perhaps to errors in cataloging the known editions or mistaken references to the works of [[Jakob Sutor]] (1612) and [[Theodori Verolini]] (1679)).
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| − | In 2006, Meyer's treatise was translated into English by Dr. [[Jeffrey L. Forgeng]] and published in New York and London under the title ''The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570''. A second edition with minor corrections was published in 2015.
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| − | In 2012, [[Alex Kiermayer]] translated the treatise to modern German, and this was published by Arts Of Mars Books under the title ''Joachim Meyers Kunst Des Fechtens. Gründtliche Beschreibung des Fechtens, 1570.''
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| − | == Contents ==
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| − | ! id="page" | [[Joachim Meyer|A1r - B4v]]
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| − | | Preface by [[Joachim Meyer]]
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| − | ! [[Joachim Meyer|1.1r - 1.64v]]
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| − | | Part 1 - Sword by [[Joachim Meyer]]
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| − | ! [[Joachim Meyer|2.1r - 2.49v]]
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| − | | Part 2 - Dussack by [[Joachim Meyer]]
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| − | ! [[Joachim Meyer|2.50r - 2.107v]]
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| − | | Part 3 - Rapier by [[Joachim Meyer]]
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| − | ! [[Joachim Meyer|3.1r - 3.15v]]
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| − | | Part 4 - Dagger and wrestling by [[Joachim Meyer]]
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| − | ! [[Joachim Meyer|3.16r - 3.47r]]
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| − | | Part 5 - Staff and pole weapons by [[Joachim Meyer]]
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| − | ! [[Joachim Meyer|3.47v]]
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| − | == Gallery ==
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| − | <h3> Title pages </h3>
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Cover.png|First Edition}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1600 Cover.jpg|Second Edition}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Crest.png|Johan Casimir's arms}}
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| − | <h3 style="clear:both;"> Illustrations </h3>
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword A.png|Sword A}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword B.png|Sword B}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword C.png|Sword C}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword D.png|Sword D}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword E.png|Sword E}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword F.png|Sword F}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword G.png|Sword G}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword H.png|Sword H}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword I.png|Sword I}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword K.png|Sword K}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword L.png|Sword L}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword M.png|Sword M}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword N.png|Sword N}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Sword O.png|Sword O}}
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| − | {{image|Meyer 1570 Sword Cuts.png|Cutting Diagram 1}}
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| − | {{image|Meyer 1570 Sword Segno.png|Cutting Diagram 2}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack A.png|Dussack A}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack B.png|Dussack B}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack C.png|Dussack C}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack D.png|Dussack D}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|ph=1|Skipped|Dussack E}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack F.png|Dussack F}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack G.png|Dussack G}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack H.png|Dussack H}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack I.png|Dussack I}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack K.png|Dussack K}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack L.png|Dussack L}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack M.png|Dussack M}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack N.png|Dussack N}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack O.png|Dussack O}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Dussack P.png|Dussack P}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Portrait 1.png|Meyer Portrait 1}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Portrait 2.png|Meyer Portrait 2}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Portrait 3.png|Meyer Portrait 3}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Rapier Cutting Lines.png|Cutting Lines|width=x100px}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Rapier A.png|Rapier A}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Rapier B.png|Rapier B}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Staff F.png|Staff F}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Staff G.png|Staff G}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Staff H.png|Staff H}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Staff I.png|Staff I}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Staff K.png|Staff K}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Staff L.png|Staff L}}
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| − | {{image|h=1|Meyer 1570 Staff M.png|Staff M}}
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