Cabinet d'escrime de l'espee et poingnardt (MS KB.73.J.39)

Cabinet d'escrime de l'espee et poingnardt
MS KB.73.J.39, Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Hague, Netherlands
Hagedorn — Leng —
Wierschin — Hils —
Also known as	Showcase of Fencing with the Sword and Dagger, Composed in Former Times by Mr. Peloquin, Captain and One of the Four Leading Fencing Masters of France.
Type	Fencing manual
Date	before 1609
Language(s)	Middle French
Author(s)	Peloquin
Scribe(s)	J. de La Haye
Material	Paper, in a leather binding
Size	28 folia (146 mm × 189 mm)
Format	Double-sided; one illustration per side, with text alongside
External data	Library catalog entry

Cabinet d'escrime de l'espee et poingnardt ("Showcase of Fencing with the Sword and Dagger", MS KB.73.J.39) is a 17th century copy of a French fencing manual created in ca. 1585 by Peloquin.^{[citation needed]} It currently rests in the holdings of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, Netherlands. It contains both descriptive text and abstract fencing diagrams, and is one of the first manuals documenting the French fencing tradition.

Contents

1r - 28v	Rapier and dagger by Peloquin

Gallery

A collation diagram for this manuscript is available on the index page.

Front cover

Inside cover

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Inside cover

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