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Oplodidaskalia sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri (Cod.1246)

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Οπλοδιδασκαλια sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri
Location unknown
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HagedornADBLeng
WierschinHils13
Type
Date between 1600 and 1620
Language(s) Early New High German
Author(s)
Scribe(s) Unknown
Illustrator(s) Hans Brosamer (?)
Material Paper, in a modern leather binding
Size 181 folia
Format Double-sided; illustrations with text
Script Bastarda
Exemplar(s)
Previously kept Universitätsbibliothek Breslau,
Wrocław, Poland

Οπλοδιδασκαλια sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri ("Weapon Training, or Albrecht Dürer's Meditation on the Handling of Weapons", Codex 1246) is German fencing manual created between 1600 and 1620, copied from a variety of earlier sources. Dörnhöffer's 1910 edition places the manuscript at the Universitätsbibliothek Breslau in what is now Wrocław, Poland; it was lost during World War II, and its current location is unknown. Based on Dörnhöffer's analysis, it seems that this manuscript is a compilation of Albrecht Dürer's 1512 fencing manual, selections from Christian Egenolff's Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst, and sundry other items.

Provenance

Contents

This table of contents is extrapolated from Dörnhöffer's analysis of the manuscript. Any mistakes are probably due to a lack of clarity in either his description or the translation from German to English.

1r - 3v Front matter
4r - 14v Long sword teachings by Andre Paurenfeyndt via Egenolff
15r Diagram of anatomy of the sword
22r - 81v Grappling teachings from the Augsburg tradition via Albrecht Dürer
82r - 85v Various teachings from the Augsburg tradition via Albrecht Dürer
86r - 104v Various teachings from Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst
110r - 122v Messer teachings from Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst
148r - 156v Various teachings from Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst
158r - 168v "Adeliches Exercitium des Piquenspieß"
169r - 180v Gloss of Liechtenauer's Recital on long sword fencing by pseudo-Peter von Danzig (?)
181r Epitaph

Gallery

Dörnhöffer's edition of the MS 26-232 includes the following sample images from the Codex 1246.

Folio 1r (?)
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Folio 22r
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Folio 22v
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Folio 91r
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Folio 91v
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References

Copyright and License Summary

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