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Pol Hausbuch (MS 3227a)
| Pol Hausbuch | |||||
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| MS 3227a, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg, Germany | |||||
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| Type | Commonplace book | ||||
| Date | ca. 1400s | ||||
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| Compiler | Unknown | ||||
| Material | Paper and parchment, in a leather binding | ||||
| Size | 169 folia (105 mm × 145 mm) | ||||
| Format | Double-sided, with black and red ink | ||||
| External data | Museum catalog entry | ||||
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The Pol Hausbuch (MS 3227a) is a German commonplace book (or Hausbuch in German) thought to have been created some time between 1389 and 1532.[1] The original currently rests in the holdings of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany. It is sometimes erroneously attributed to Hans "Hanko" Döbringer,[2] when in fact he is but one of the four authors of a brief addendum to Johannes Liechtenauer's art of long sword fencing, which is also the only fencing material in the manuscript that appears in any other fencing manual. The rest of the manuscript is a typical example of a commonplace book, containing a variety of unrelated writings on mundane and esoteric topics, including fencing and grappling, but for this reason, the anonymous author of the rest of the fencing material is sometimes known as Pseudo-Hans Döbringer. Pseudo-Döbringer's writings seem to consist of commentary on and expansion of the teachings of Liechtenauer, and it is even speculated that he was still alive at the time of the writing.[3]
Christian Tobler argues that it is unjustified to assume a date of 1389 based purely on the presence of a century-long calendar.[4] The eclectic nature of commonplace books means that the calendar could easily have been an old calendar or even a future one. As the date of the Pol Hausbuch is also used to estimate the time period of Liechtenauer's career, this is a significant error. (Using it to date Liechtenauer is further complicated by the fact that even if he were alive when the fencing treatise was written, the version in this manuscript is potentially a later copy rather than the original.)[5] An upper limit on the origin of the manuscript is often estimated based on the date in the front cover, which seems to indicate that Nicolaus Pol owned it in 1494, but that's a misinterpretation Pol received his doctorate in 1494, and all books from his library follow his name with "Doctor, 1494".
Contents
Provenance
Contents
| 1r - 5v | Liber Ignium by Marcus Graecus | ||||||||||||
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| 6r | Recipes for powders used for painting | ||||||||||||
| 6v - 10v | Latin recipes (paint, alchemy, medicine) | ||||||||||||
| 11r - 12r | Von dem herten | ||||||||||||
| 12v - 13r | Alchemical recipes in Latin | ||||||||||||
| 13v - 17v | Fencing advice by Pseudo-Hans Döbringer | ||||||||||||
| 18r - 40r | Gloss of Liechtenauer's long sword by Pseudo-Hans Döbringer | ||||||||||||
| 43r - 52v | Long sword by Andres Juden, Jobs von der Nyssen, Nicklass Prewßen, and "the Priest" Hans Döbringer | ||||||||||||
| 53r - 59v | Recital on mounted fencing by Johannes Liechtenauer | ||||||||||||
| 60r - 61r | Recital on short sword by Johannes Liechtenauer | ||||||||||||
| 64r - 65r | Conclusion of the teachings of Liechtenauer by Pseudo-Hans Döbringer | ||||||||||||
| 66v - 67r | Astrological texts, magical and medicinal recipes, name magic | ||||||||||||
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| 68r - 73v | Astrological texts, magical and medicinal recipes, name magic | ||||||||||||
| 74r | Sword and buckler teachings by Pseudo-Hans Döbringer | ||||||||||||
| 74v - 77v | Recipes for paint, tumors, metal and ivory treatment | ||||||||||||
| 78r | Staff teachings by Pseudo-Hans Döbringer | ||||||||||||
| 79r - 81v | Miscellaneous Latin recipes, treatment of gems, preparation of a miraculous potion | ||||||||||||
| 82rv | Messer teachings by Pseudo-Hans Döbringer | ||||||||||||
| 83v | Interval between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday for years 1390-1495 | ||||||||||||
| 84r - 85r | Dagger teachings by Pseudo-Hans Döbringer | ||||||||||||
| 85r - 85v, 86v | Magical recipes | ||||||||||||
| 86r, 87r - 89r | Grappling teachings by Pseudo-Hans Döbringer | ||||||||||||
| 90v - 91v | Medical Recipes for the Mouth and Teeth | ||||||||||||
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| 92r - 165v | Various alchemical recipes, food recipes, nonsense recipes, in various hands | ||||||||||||
| 161v - 165v | "Horse pharmacopeia" (Rossarzneibuch) by Master Albrant | ||||||||||||
| 166r - 169v | Index to the recipes in the manuscript, partly illegible |
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Additional Resources
- Burkart, Eric (2016). "The Autograph of an Erudite Martial Artist: A Close Reading of Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 3227a." Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books. Transmission and Tradition of Martial Arts in Europe: 451-480. Ed. by Daniel Jaquet; Karin Verelst and Timothy Dawson. Leiden/Boston: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004324725 017.
- Burkart, Eric (2020). "Informationsverarbeitung durch autographe Notizen: Die ältesten Aufzeichnungen zur Kampfkunst des Johannes Liechtenauer als Spuren einer Aneignung praktischen Wissens." Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte S2: 117-158. doi:10.26012/mittelalter-25866.
- Cabreira, Diniz (2018). Há Uma Única Arte da Espada (GNM HS 3227a). Santiago de Compostela: AGEA Editora. ISBN 978-84-948682-6-9.
- Chidester, Michael (2021). The Long Sword Gloss of GNM Manuscript 3227a. Somerville, MA: HEMA Bookshelf. ISBN 978-1-953683-13-7.
- Chidester, Michael; Dierk Hagedorn (2021). “The Foundation and Core of All the Arts of Fighting”: The Long Sword Gloss of GNM Manuscript 3227a. Somerville, MA: HEMA Bookshelf. ISBN 978-1-953683-05-2.
- Ehlert, Trude; Rainer Leng (2003). "Frühe Koch- und Pulverrezepte aus der Nürnberger Handschrift GNM 3227a (um 1389)." Medizin in Geschichte, Philologie und Ethnologie Königshausen & Neumann. ISBN 978-3826021763.
- Hammer, Maciej (2015). Tłumaczenie traktatu szermierczego zawartego w rękopisie Nürnberger Handschrift 3227a z wyszczególnieniem trudności zaistniałych podczas przekładu [unpublished thesis]. Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Filologiczny.
- Hester, James (2009). "Real Men Read Poetry: Instructional Verse in 14th-century Fight Manuals." Arms & Armour 6(2): 175-183. doi:10.1179/174962609X417590.
- Hull, Jeffrey; Grzegorz Żabiński and Monika Maziarz (2007). Knightly Dueling: The Fighting Arts of German Chivalry. Boulder, CO: Paladin Press. ISBN 978-1-581606744.
- Leng, Rainer (2000). "Andreas der Jude, Jost von der Neißen und Niclas Preuß: Drei verhinderte ‘Verfasser’ eines Fechtbuches." Würzburger medizinhistorische Mitteilungen 19: 209-220.
- Tobler, Christian Henry (2022). Lance, Spear, Sword, & Messer: A German Medieval Martial Arts Miscellany. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-64-4.
- Verelst, Karin (2016). "Finding a Way through the Labyrinth: Some Methodological Remarks on Critically Editing the Fight Book Corpus." Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books. Transmission and Tradition of Martial Arts in Europe: 117-188. Ed. by Daniel Jaquet; Karin Verelst and Timothy Dawson. Leiden/Boston: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004324725 008.
- Vodička, Ondřej (2019). "Origin of the oldest German Fencing Manual Compilation (GNM Hs. 3227a)." Waffen- und Kostümkunde 61(1): 87-108.
- Wallhausen, James (2010). Knightly Martial Arts: An Introduction to Medieval Combat Systems. Self-published. ISBN 978-1-4457-3736-2.
- Wassmannsdorff, Karl (1870). Die Ringkunst des deutschen Mittelalters. Liepzig: Priber.
- Welle, Rainer (1993). '…und wisse das alle höbischeit kompt von deme ringen'. Der Ringkampf als adelige Kunst im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN 3-89085-755-8.
- Żabiński, Grzegorz (2008). "Unarmored Longsword Combat by Master Liechtenauer via Priest Döbringer." Masters of Medieval and Renaissance Martial Arts: 59-116. Ed. by Jeffrey Hull. Boulder, CO: Paladin Press. ISBN 978-1-58160-668-3.
References
- ↑ The date of 1389 is based on the presence of a sort of "calendar" on folio 83v that begins in 1390, while 1532 the year its earliest known owner, Nicolaus Pol, died.
- ↑ The attribution to Döbringer is based on how prominently the name "Hanko pfaffen Döbringers" appears to be displayed on folio 43r, but upon examination this is revealed as a simple correction inserted in the margin, indicating that Döbringer's name had been accidentally omitted from the list of four authors of the treatise beginning on that page. Attributing this manuscript to Döbringer therefore requires him to have forgotten to include his own name in his own treatise.
- ↑ The manuscript uniformly lacks the traditional prayer for the dead when mentioning his name.
- ↑ This isn't a calendar in any conventional sense, but rather a simple list of the number of weeks between the holidays of Epiphany and Ash Wednesday in each of the years.
- ↑ Tobler, Christian Henry. "Chicken and Eggs: Which Master Came First?" In Saint George's Name: An Anthology of Medieval German Fighting Arts. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press, 2010.
Copyright and License Summary
For further information, including transcription and translation notes, see the discussion page.
| Work | Author(s) | Source | License |
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| Images | Germanisches Nationalmuseum | Digitale Bibliothek |  |
| Translation (5v, 67v) | Ondrej Vodicka | Wiktenauer | |
| Translation (11r - 12r) | Jeffrey Hull | "Fight-Book Clues to the Quality and Build of Knightly Weaponry" |  |
| Transcription | Dierk Hagedorn, Jeffrey Hull, Ondrej Vodicka | Index:Pol Hausbuch (MS 3227a) |  |
