Fior di Battaglia (MS XXIV)

Il Fior di Battaglia
MS ⅩⅩⅣ, Biblioteca Guarneriana San Daniele del Friuli, Italy
First page, f 783r
Hagedorn FLZ Leng —
Wierschin — Hils —
Type	Fencing manual
Date	1699
Place of origin	Venice, Italy
Language(s)	Italian
Author(s)	Fiore de'i Liberi
Scribe(s)	Apostolo Zeno
Dedicated to	Giusto Cardinal Fontanini
Material	Paper
Size	2 folia
Script	Cursive
Exemplar(s)	MS M.383 (1400s)
Identified	Luigi Zanutto

Folia 783-784 of the MS ⅩⅩⅣ were copied by Apostolo Zeno in 1699 from the MS M.383, an Italian fencing manual authored by Fiore de'i Liberi in ca. 1404. The original currently rests in the Collezione Fontanini of the Biblioteca Guarneriana in San Daniele del Friuli, Italy. This copy comprises only Liberi's preface, whic Zeno transcribed for his colleague Giusto Cardinal Fontanini and sent on 4 July 1699. This manuscript was discovered decades before that from which it was copied, and was the first clue that Liberi had authored additional works aside from the well-known Pisani Dossi MS.

Contents

783r - 783ar	Preface by Fiore de'i Liberi

Additional Resources

The following is a list of publications containing scans, transcriptions, and translations relevant to this article, as well as published peer-reviewed research.

• Chidester, Michael (2021). The Flower of Battle: MS M 383. Somerville: HEMA Bookshelf. ISBN 978-1-953683-07-6.
• Malipiero, Massimo (2006). Il Fior di battaglia di Fiore dei Liberi da Cividale: Il Codice Ludwing ⅩⅤ 13 del J. Paul Getty Museum. Udine: Ribis. ISBN 978-887-44503-5-0.
• Zanutto, Luigi (1907). Fiore di Premariacco ed I Ludi e Le Feste Marziali e Civili in Friuli. Udine: D. Del Bianco.

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