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Learn to set-aside cut, thrust. Artfully disrupt whoever thrusts upon you such that your point hits and his breaks. Hit anytime from both sides if you will step.
 
Learn to set-aside cut, thrust. Artfully disrupt whoever thrusts upon you such that your point hits and his breaks. Hit anytime from both sides if you will step.
  
Gloss Master Hans: This so that you shall learn to set-aside artfully disrupting cut, thrust also breaking point thusly: If someone cuts or thrusts against you, plainly setting-aside and breaking strike and point from all positions and cuts or stances and setting-upon from all sides as they encroach you and hitting the point with your point or sword and setting-aside well and from that make a strike-in above with the short edge to the head to whichever side it then gives itself up. Thereafter work in-the-moment with the after and war. Or<ref>marginalia: 'ma?es' => ?</ref> else according to the interpretive intent of others as they execute the setting-aside: When you come to him with the onset, if he then positions himself against you as so in the plow, as they call it (but I call it the ox down by the knee) and acts as if he will thrust into you, the set your left foot forward and stand against him as well in the ox to your right side with crossed arms or hands and give yourself an opening with the left side. If he then thrusts into your opening, then wind against his thrust to you left side with your sword on his sword and step into with the right foot and with that set-aside such that the point always remains standing against him and in-the-moment stab him in the face or chest. Thus, your point hits and his does not. Or also make a strike and otherwise do whatever you wish if you would like to work with the warring. But if you stand against someone as above in the ox and would like to thrust him, if he then cuts above downward to your left opening, then go up with your sword against his cut and wind-in him to the side (openly or crookedly as it gives itself) and the point sharply into his face or chest and step in with [it]. Thereafter, work or war.
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Gloss Master Hans: This so that you shall learn to set-aside artfully disrupting cut, thrust also breaking point thusly: If someone cuts or thrusts against you, plainly setting-aside and breaking strike and point from all positions and cuts or stances and setting-upon from all sides as they encroach you and hitting the point with your point or sword and setting-aside well and from that make a strike-in above with the short edge to the head to whichever side it then gives itself up. Thereafter work in-the-moment with the after and war. Or<ref>marginalia: 'malz' => bad, weak</ref> else according to the interpretive intent of others as they execute the setting-aside: When you come to him with the onset, if he then positions himself against you as so in the plow, as they call it (but I call it the ox down by the knee) and acts as if he will thrust into you, the set your left foot forward and stand against him as well in the ox to your right side with crossed arms or hands and give yourself an opening with the left side. If he then thrusts into your opening, then wind against his thrust to you left side with your sword on his sword and step into with the right foot and with that set-aside such that the point always remains standing against him and in-the-moment stab him in the face or chest. Thus, your point hits and his does not. Or also make a strike and otherwise do whatever you wish if you would like to work with the warring. But if you stand against someone as above in the ox and would like to thrust him, if he then cuts above downward to your left opening, then go up with your sword against his cut and wind-in him to the side (openly or crookedly as it gives itself) and the point sharply into his face or chest and step in with [it]. Thereafter, work or war.
 
| '''Von dem absetzen'''
 
| '''Von dem absetzen'''
 
Lere absetzen haw stich künstlich letzen Wer auf dich sticht das dein ort trifft vnd sein pricht von baiden seitten triff allemal wiltu schreitenn Glosa
 
Lere absetzen haw stich künstlich letzen Wer auf dich sticht das dein ort trifft vnd sein pricht von baiden seitten triff allemal wiltu schreitenn Glosa

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Hans Medel von Salzburg

A play from Medel's fencing manual
Born 15th century
Died 16th century
Occupation Fencing master
Citizenship Salzburg, Germany
Movement Liechtenauer tradition
Influences
Genres Fencing manual
Language Early New High German
Archetype(s) Codex I.6.2º.5 (1539)
Concordance by Michael Chidester
Translations Magyar fordítás

Hans Medel von Salzburg (Hans Niedel, Hans Mendel) was an early 16th century German fencing master. Salzburg is a city in northern Austria, and he seems to have operated as a burgher and Schirmmeister there from at least 1503.[1] Little else is known about this master, but he seems to have been associated with the tradition of Johannes Liechtenauer. He may have traced his lineage through Hans Seydenfaden von Erfurt, a member of the Society of Liechtenauer,[2] as Medel's text is the only known source outside of the Paulus Kal's honor role that mentions the earlier master's name.

Medel's name is attached to a treatise on swordsmanship from 1539, including an annotated version of Sigmund Schining ain Ringeck's gloss and an original work on fencing from "the Seven Stances". This treatise later passed into the library of Paulus Hector Mair, who bound it into the current Codex I.6.2º.5 some time after 1566.

Treatise

Additional Resources

References

  1. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde, vol. 40. Salzburg, 1900. p 177.
  2. Kal, Paulus. Untitled [manuscript]. Cgm 1507. Munich, Germany: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 1470.
  3. alt: right
  4. alt: side
  5. alt: defense
  6. the artist/professional doing their work
  7. alt: gladly valuing in the arts
  8. alt: gladly valuing with kindness
  9. alt: right
  10. alt: weapon
  11. eindrohen: to imminently threaten
  12. Zeck: a biting insect, ie: a tick.
  13. alt: closer, sooner
  14. this is usually the term for the severing of limbs/extremities, though can mean cutting while exiting
  15. widerschlagen: to strike against, in a reverberating sense
  16. towards
  17. severely, precisely, ruthlessly, violently
  18. videlicet: namely; to wit
  19. letz: reversed, disrupted, perverted, refuting, incorrect, twisted, unjust, left
  20. paper is damaged. only the letters 'ne' remain. There's enough room for two or three letters
  21. ansiegen: to return with victory
  22. glance, discern, glean
  23. Ochs
  24. likes to
  25. Ochs
  26. Ochs
  27. can also mean `to tame or incapacitate`
  28. This is a markedly different reading of the verse from the usual: `squint to the top of the forehead if you wish to incapacitate the hands` Hand can either mean `hand` or `side` and Medel adds `sy` which refers to the head
  29. could also mean 'carelessly'
  30. Alternately: strongly, firmly, steadfastly.
  31. the leger or hut
  32. rappen: to gather, to snatch, to seize
  33. no apparent verb here. A similar construction appears below with the added phrase: "set-upon upon the four endings to both sides"
  34. alt: fleeing
  35. alt: wrongs, falsehoods, meanings, diminishments, mines, minings, manners, ownings, possessings.
  36. alt: exit
  37. mitmachen: join, unite, combine, participate
  38. alternately: old
  39. marginalia: 'malz' => bad, weak
  40. alt: across
  41. alt: it
  42. alt: inside
  43. alt: misleading
  44. alt:across
  45. alt: open