In this section the medieval fightbooks on the knightly martial arts on horseback are listed. At the end of this list, also early modern works which still contain information on knightly martial practices will be added.
This section will make good use of the wiktenauer database which contains the manuscripts, transcriptions and translations of these various works.
This section will make good use of the wiktenauer database which contains the manuscripts, transcriptions and translations of these various works.
Liechtenauer Tradition
In this subsection, works and masters belonging to the direct Liechtenauer Tradition will be listed. This tradition started with the teachings of Johannes Liechtenauer, which inspired a number of his students to record the verses Liechtenauer used to teach the martial arts. These verses were further explained and elaborated in later manuscripts alongside different textual traditions, the Pseudo Von Danzig and Ringeck traditions being the most important. Next to this textual tradition, also masters belonging to the Liechtenauer Society emerged who sometimes glossed the master's verses, or who devised their own teachings based on the substrate of Liechtenauer's initial teachings. The initial verses, the glossed works and the work of the masters belonging to the Liechtenauer Society are incorporated in this list.
Liechtenauer, Johannes
Biography: wiktenauer
Transcription: Hammaborg: http://www.hammaborg.de/de/transkriptionen/3227a/04_rossfechten.php
Note : This transcription is based on the archetype manuscript (Codex Döbringer).
Manuscripts:
Note: The Liechtenauer verses have been preserved in many manuscripts. This list is exhaustive, also including the manuscripts of later glossist of the Liechtenauer verses, which will be mentioned sperately as well. Because these manuscripts also contain a version of the verses themselves, they are also listed here. The Codex Döbringer, however, should be considered the archetype manuscript for the verses.
Juden, Andres; von der Nyssen, Jobs; Prewsen, Bicklass en Döbringer, Hanko
Note: Other than the Liechtenauer verses themselves, the Döbringer Codex does not contain more information on Rossfechten. However, since these authors devised the archetype manuscript for the Liechtenauer verses, they are separately listed.
Biography: wiktenauer
transcription: Hammaborg
Manuscripts:
Pseudo Peter von Danzig
Biography: wiktenauer
Transcription: Hammaborg
Manuscripts:
Lew, Jud
Note: The Lew Codex and its copies contains the Pseudo Von Danzig glosses for most martial disciplines. For Rossfechten, however, the Lew Codex contains a unique text devised by Jud Lew, although apparently based on the Pseudo Von Danzig text.
Biography: wiktenauer
Transcription: Hammaborg
Manuscripts:
Ringeck, Sigmund Schining ein
Biography: wiktenauer
Transcription: wiktenauer; Hammaborg
Manuscripts:
Von Speyer, Hans
Biography: wiktenauer
Transcription: Hammaborg
Manuscripts:
Huntfeltz, Martin
Biography & Transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
Kal, Paulus
Biography & Transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
Biography: wiktenauer
Transcription: Hammaborg: http://www.hammaborg.de/de/transkriptionen/3227a/04_rossfechten.php
Note : This transcription is based on the archetype manuscript (Codex Döbringer).
Manuscripts:
Note: The Liechtenauer verses have been preserved in many manuscripts. This list is exhaustive, also including the manuscripts of later glossist of the Liechtenauer verses, which will be mentioned sperately as well. Because these manuscripts also contain a version of the verses themselves, they are also listed here. The Codex Döbringer, however, should be considered the archetype manuscript for the verses.
- Nurenberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 3225a (Codex Döbringer), ff. 18r-40r, 53r-65r ca. (1389)
link : wiktenauer - Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt/Gotha, Chart.A.558 (Talhoffer Fechtbuch), ff. 18r-23r, 48v (1443)
link: wiktenauer - Roma, Accademia Nazionale die Lincei, 44.A.8 (Codex Danzig), ff. 3r-9r, (9v-72r) (1452)
link: wiktenauer - Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, I.6.4°.3 (Codex Lew), ff. 1r-53v, 95r-96v (Ca. 1450)
link: wiktenauer - Copenhagen, Der Koniglige Bibliotek, Thott.290.2o (Talhoffer Fechtbuch), ff. 2r-5v (1495)
link: wiktenauer - Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August Bibliothek, Cod.Guelf., 78.2 Aug.2° (Gladiatoria), ff. IIr-IIv (1465-1480)
link: wikentauer - München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 1507 (Paulus Kal Fechtbuch), ff. 6v-36v, 58r-70v (ca. 1470)
link: wiktenauer - Weimar, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Q.566 (Die Meisterlieder des Hans Folz), ff. 147v-148v (1479)
link: wiktenauer - Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, KK5126 (Paulus Kal Fechtbuch), ff. 104v-106r, (106r-122v) (ca. 1480)
link: wiktenauer
- Salzburg, Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg, M.I.29 (Codex Speyer), ff. (10r-44r), 129r-130r, 143r-158r (1491)
link: wiktenauer
- Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresd., C.487 (Codex Ringeck), ff. 3r-48v, 55r-59v, 89r-122v (ca. 1500)
link: wiktenauer
- Glasgow, Glasgow Museums, E.1939.65.341 (Glasgow Fechtbuch), ff. 1r-22r, 74r-95v (1508)
link: wiktenauer
- Vienna, Albertina, 26-232 (Oplodidaskalia sive Armorum Tractandorum Meditatio Alberti Dureri), ff. 105r-124r (ca. 1512)
Link: wiktenauer
- Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Germ.Quart, 2020 (Goliath), ff. 1r-73v, 163r-192r, 199r-251v (1510-1520)
link: wiktenauer - München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 3711 (Jörg Wilhalm Hutters kunst zu Augspurg), ff. 43r-45v (1523)
link: wiktenauer - Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, I.6.2°.2 (Hutter/Sollinger Fechtbuch), ff. 42r-44r, 67v-69v (1523/1564)
link: wiktenauer - Glasgow, Glasgow Museums, E.1939.65.354 (Gregor Erhart Fechtbuch), ff. 167v-170v (1533)
link: wiktenauer - Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, I.6.2°.5 (Hans Medel Fechtbuch), ff. 21r-36v (1539, 1552)
link: wiktenauer
- Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt/Gotha, Chart.B., 1021 (Paulus Kal Fechtbuch), ff. 3v-13r, 17v-46r (1542)
link: wiktenauer - Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresd., C93/C94 (Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica), I, ff. 84r-113r, II, ff. 301r-327r (ca. 1542)
link: wiktenauer - Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 10825/10826 (Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica), ff. 70r-96v (ca. 1548)
link : wiktenauer - Augsburg, Stadtarchiv, Reichstadt „Schätze“, 82 (Rast Fechtbuch), ff. 1r-21v (ca. 1553)
link: wiktenauer - München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 3712 (Maister Liechtenawers Kunstbuech), ff. 1r-23v, 65r-66r, 89r-91r (1556)
link: wiktenauer - München, Cod.icon., 393 (Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica), I, ff. 81r-96v, II, 207r-227v (ca. 1550)
link : wiktenauer - Rostock, Universitätsbibliothek Rostock, Var., 82 (Fechtbuch zu Ross und zu Fuss), ff. 6r-39v, 41r-58r, 74v-75r, 98r-110r (1570-1571)
link: wiktenauer - Graz, Universitätsbibliothek Karl-Franzens, 963 (Über die Fechtkunst und den Ringkampf), ff. 61r (1583)
link: wiktenauer - Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August Bibliothek, Cod.Guelf, 38.21 Aug.2° (Künsst zu fechten vonn dem Lienhartt Sollinger), ff. 48r-49v, 54r-54v (1588)
link: wiktenauer
Juden, Andres; von der Nyssen, Jobs; Prewsen, Bicklass en Döbringer, Hanko
Note: Other than the Liechtenauer verses themselves, the Döbringer Codex does not contain more information on Rossfechten. However, since these authors devised the archetype manuscript for the Liechtenauer verses, they are separately listed.
Biography: wiktenauer
transcription: Hammaborg
Manuscripts:
- Nurenberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 3225a (Codex Döbringer), ff. 43r-52v (ca. 1389)
link: wiktenauer - Glasgow, Glasgow Museums, E.1939.65.341 (Glasgow Fechtbuch), ff. 27r-29v (1508)
link: wiktenauer
Pseudo Peter von Danzig
Biography: wiktenauer
Transcription: Hammaborg
Manuscripts:
- Roma, Accademia Nazionale die Lincei, 44.A.8 (Codex Danzig), ff. 9v-72r (1452)
link: wiktenauer
Note: Archetype manuscript - Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, I.6.4°.3 (Codex Lew), ff. 1r-53v (ca. 1450)
link: wiktenauer
Note: Only for the Rossfechten section, this manuscript is different from the pseudo-Danzig as it is the only part authored by Jud Lew. Nonetheless, it is still heavily inspired by the pseudo-Danzig tradition. - Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, KK5126 (Paulus Kal Fechtbuch), ff. 106r-122v, (106r-122v) (ca. 1480)
link: wiktenauer - Salzburg, Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg, M.I.29 (Codex Speyer), ff. 10r-44r (1491)
link: wiktenauer - Vienna, Albertina, 26-232 (Oplodidaskalia sive Armorum Tractandorum Meditatio Alberti Dureri), ff. 105r-124r (ca. 1512)
link: wiktenauer - Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Germ.Quart, 2020 (Goliath), ff. 7v-73v, 163r-192r, 199r-251v (1510-1520)
link: wiktenauer
Note: Illuminated version - Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, I.6.2°.2 (Hutter/Sollinger Fechtbuch), ff. 67v-69v (1523/1564)
link: wiktenauer - Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresd., C93/C94 (Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica), I, ff. 84r-113r (ca. 1542)
link: wiktenauer - Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 10825/10826 (Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica), ff. 70r-96v (ca. 1548)
link : wiktenauer - Augsburg, Stadtarchiv, Reichstadt „Schätze“, 82 (Rast Fechtbuch), ff. 1r-14v, 19r-21v (ca. 1553)
link: wiktenauer - München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 3712 (Maister Liechtenawers Kunstbuech), ff. 1r-23v (1556)
link: wiktenauer - München, Cod.icon., 393 (Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica), I, ff. 81r-96v (ca. 1550)
link : wiktenauer - Rostock, Universitätsbibliothek Rostock, Var., 82 (Fechtbuch zu Ross und zu Fuss), ff. 13v-39v (1570-1571)
link: wiktenauer
Lew, Jud
Note: The Lew Codex and its copies contains the Pseudo Von Danzig glosses for most martial disciplines. For Rossfechten, however, the Lew Codex contains a unique text devised by Jud Lew, although apparently based on the Pseudo Von Danzig text.
Biography: wiktenauer
Transcription: Hammaborg
Manuscripts:
- Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, I.6.4°.3 (Codex Lew), ff. 1r-53v, 95r-96v (ca. 1450)
link: wiktenauer
Note: archetype manuscript - Salzburg, Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg, M.I.29 (Codex Speyer), ff. 97r-125r (1491)
link: wiktenauer - Graz, Universitätsbibliothek Karl-Franzens, 963 (Über die Fechtkunst und den Ringkampf), ff. 61v-74r (1583)
link: wiktenauer - Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresd., C93/C94 (Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica), I, ff. 303r-327r (ca. 1542)
link: wiktenauer - München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 3712 (Maister Liechtenawers Kunstbuech), ff. 25r-31r (1556)
link: wiktenauer - Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 10825/10826 (Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica), ff. 224r-226r, 251r (ca. 1548)
link : wiktenauer - München, Cod.icon., 393 (Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica), I, ff. 207r-227v (ca. 1550)
link : wiktenauer - Rostock, Universitätsbibliothek Rostock, Var., 82 (Fechtbuch zu Ross und zu Fuss), ff. 41r-67r, 75v (1570-1571)
link: wiktenauer
Ringeck, Sigmund Schining ein
Biography: wiktenauer
Transcription: wiktenauer; Hammaborg
Manuscripts:
- Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresd., C.487 (Codex Ringeck), ff. 10v-54r, 89r-122v (ca. 1500)
link: wiktenauer
Note: archetype manuscript - Glasgow, Glasgow Museums, E.1939.65.341 (Glasgow Fechtbuch), ff. 1r-24r, 35r (1508)
link: wiktenauer - Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, I.6.2°.5 (Hans Medel Fechtbuch), ff. 21r-36v (1539, 1552)
link: wiktenauer - Rostock, Universitätsbibliothek Rostock, Var., 82 (Fechtbuch zu Ross und zu Fuss), ff. 6r-13v, 98r-110r (1570-1571)
link: wiktenauer
Von Speyer, Hans
Biography: wiktenauer
Transcription: Hammaborg
Manuscripts:
- Salzburg, Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg, M.I.29 (Codex Speyer) (1491)
link: wiktenauer
Huntfeltz, Martin
Biography & Transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
- Roma, Accademia Nazionale die Lincei, 44.A.8 (Codex Danzig), ff. 87r-100r (1452)
link: wiktenauer - Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, I.6.4°.3 (Codex Lew), ff. 54r-83v (ca. 1450)
link: wiktenauer - Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, KK5126 (Paulus Kal Fechtbuch), ff. 124v-127r (ca. 1480)
link: wiktenauer - Salzburg, Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg, M.I.29 (Codex Speyer), ff. 130r-141r (1491)
link: wiktenauer - Glasgow, Glasgow Museums, E.1939.65.341 (Glasgow Fechtbuch), ff. 95v-97v, 100v-104v (1508)
link: wiktenauer - Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Germ.Quart, 2020 (Goliath), ff. 103r-110v, 192v-196r, 272r-281v (1510-1520)
link: wiktenauer - Graz, Universitätsbibliothek Karl-Franzens, 963 (Über die Fechtkunst und den Ringkampf), ff. 74v-81v (1583)
link: wiktenauer - Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresd., C93/C94 (Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica), ff. 254r-266r (ca. 1542)
link: wiktenauer - München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 3712 (Maister Liechtenawers Kunstbuech), ff. 25r-31r (1556)
link: wiktenauer - München, Cod.icon., 393 (Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica), II, ff. 287r-302v (ca. 1550)
link: wiktenauer - Rostock, Universitätsbibliothek Rostock, Var., 82 (Fechtbuch zu Ross und zu Fuss), ff. 58r-74v (1570-1571)
link: wiktenauer
Kal, Paulus
Biography & Transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
- München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 1507 (Paulus Kal Fechtbuch), ff. 1r-6r, 37v-57r, 71v-95r (Ca. 1470)
link: wiktenauer - Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, KK5126 (Paulus Kal Fechtbuch), ff. 10r-100r (Ca. 1480)
link: wiktenauer - Gotti MS, ff. 1r-5v (1470-1500)
link: wiktenauer - Solothurn, Zentralbibliothek Solothurn, S.554 (Solothurner Fechtbuch) (1506-1514)
link: wiktenauer - Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt/Gotha, Chart.B., 1021 (Paulus Kal Fechtbuch), ff. 1r-2v, 14v-17r, 47r-63r (1542)
link: wiktenauer - München, Cod.icon., 393 (Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica), II, ff. 62r-81v, 175v-204v (ca. 1550)
link: wiktenauer
Marxbrüder
This subsection contains the works of masters related to the Marxbrüder guild. The Marxbrüder were a fencing guild that gathered in Frankfurt. A possible early member of this guild was Hans Talhoffer, although this still needs further clarification. In any case, Talhoffer’s work appears to have influenced later masters belonging to this guild. Masters such as Peter Falkner and Antonius Rast, both writing about Rossfechten amongst other disciplines, are known members of this guild. The fact that Antionius Rast was the captain of the guild also points to a link with the Neuremberg Tradition that, except for the work of Rast himself, does not include any Rossfechten elements.
Talhoffer, Hans
Biografphy: wiktenauer
Gotha fightbook
Description & transcription: wiktenauer
Note: This fightbook is often termed as the ‘personal fightbook’ of Hans Talhoffer. The original manuscript (Gotha manuscript) contains no original sections devised by Hans Talhoffer himself on Rossfechten, but it contains a copy of the Lichtenauer verses on fighting on horseback. Later copies of this manuscript, however, do contain more unique parts on Rossfechten, often drawn from Talhoffer’s other fightbooks.
Manuscripts (only the copies containing sections on Rossfechten):
Konigsegg fightbook
Description & transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
Thott fightbook
Description & Transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
Württemberg fightbook
Description & transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
Falkner, Peter
Biography & description: wiktenauer
Kunst zu ritterliche Were
Manuscripts:
Rast, Antonius
Biography & transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
Biografphy: wiktenauer
Gotha fightbook
Description & transcription: wiktenauer
Note: This fightbook is often termed as the ‘personal fightbook’ of Hans Talhoffer. The original manuscript (Gotha manuscript) contains no original sections devised by Hans Talhoffer himself on Rossfechten, but it contains a copy of the Lichtenauer verses on fighting on horseback. Later copies of this manuscript, however, do contain more unique parts on Rossfechten, often drawn from Talhoffer’s other fightbooks.
Manuscripts (only the copies containing sections on Rossfechten):
- Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt/Gotha, MS Chart.A.558 (Gotha Fightbook) (1443)
link: wiktenauer
Note: archetype manuscript - New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MS 26.236 (early 16th century)
link: wiktenauer - Kassel, Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, 2° MS iurid. 29 (17th century)
link: wiktenauer - Göttingen, Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2º Cod.MS.Philos.61 (late 17th century)
link: wiktenauer - München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.icon. 395 (ca. 1820)
link: wiktenauer
Konigsegg fightbook
Description & transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
- Königseggwald, Königsegg-Aulendorf Collection, MS XIX.17-3 (Königsegg manuscript) (between 1446 and 1459)
link: wiktenauer
Note: archetype manuscript - Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, MS 78.A.15 (ca. 1450’s)
link: wiktenauer - Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, MS KK5342 (Ambraser Codex) (between 1480 and 1500)
link: wiktenauer - Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, Cod.I.6.2º.1 (before 1561)
link: wiktenauer
Thott fightbook
Description & Transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
- Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS Thott.290.2º (1459)
link: wiktenauer
Württemberg fightbook
Description & transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
- München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.icon. 394a (1467)
link: wiktenauer
Note: archetype manuscript - Private collection (previously Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod.Ser.Nov.2978 (ca. 1500’s)
link: wiktenauer - Göttingen, Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2º Cod.MS.Philos.61 (1600’s)
link: wiktenauer - Kassel 2°, Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, MS iurid. 29 (17th century)
link: wikteanauer - München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.icon. 394 (1820)
link: wiktenauer
Falkner, Peter
Biography & description: wiktenauer
Kunst zu ritterliche Were
Manuscripts:
- Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, MS KK5012 (Kunste zu ritterliche Were) (ca. 1495)
link: wiktenauer
Rast, Antonius
Biography & transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
- Augsburg, Stadtarchiv Augsburg, Reichsstadt "Schätze" Nr. 82 (Rast Fechtbüch) (ca. 1553)
link: wiktenauer
Augsburg Tradition
This subsection contains masters or authors active in Augsburg. The most important of these masters in terms of Rossfechten is Jorg Willhalm Hutter. Also the work of Hector Paulus Mair, who was not a fencing master, will be listed here as he was the treasurer of the city. Finally, the manuscript of Jeremias Schemels von Augsburg, again a synthesis of many other works rather than a unique fighting book, will also be listed here, as precise combination and restructuring of the works Schemels drew on can be considered unique.
Hutter, Jörg Willhalm
Biography & transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
Mair, Paulus Hector
Biography & Transcription: wiktenauer
Note: Hector Paulus Mair was a wealthy citizen of Augsburg, achieving the office of treasurer of that city. He was probably not a fencing master himself, although he is assumed to have been a practioner of the several medieval martial arts disciplines. Furthermore, he had a virulent interest in the martial tradition and gathered many manuscripts containing the teachings of the ancient masters. Based on that large collection, Mair compiled the Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica as an encyclopaedic work of the martial arts. This work was commissioned in three different manuscript: a German, a latin and a German/Latin version.
Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica
Manuscripts:
Schemels von Augsburg, Jeremias
Manuscripts:
Biography & transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
- München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 3711 (Jörg Wilhalm Hutters kunst zu Augspurg) (1523)
link: wiktenauer - Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg, I.6.2°.2 (Hutter/Sollinger Fechtbuch), ff. 1r-41v (1523/1564)
link: wiktenauer - Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresd., C93/C94 (Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica), ff. 269r-297v (ca. 1542)
link: wiktenauer - München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 3712 (Maister Liechtenawers Kunstbuech), ff. 97r-195v (1556)
link: wiktenauer - Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf, 38.21 Aug.2° (Künsst zu fechten vonn dem Lienhartt Sollinger), ff. 15r-47r, 56r-79v, 96r-96v (1588)
link: wiktenauer
Mair, Paulus Hector
Biography & Transcription: wiktenauer
Note: Hector Paulus Mair was a wealthy citizen of Augsburg, achieving the office of treasurer of that city. He was probably not a fencing master himself, although he is assumed to have been a practioner of the several medieval martial arts disciplines. Furthermore, he had a virulent interest in the martial tradition and gathered many manuscripts containing the teachings of the ancient masters. Based on that large collection, Mair compiled the Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica as an encyclopaedic work of the martial arts. This work was commissioned in three different manuscript: a German, a latin and a German/Latin version.
Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica
Manuscripts:
- [German] Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, MSS Dresd.C.93/C.94 (1542)
link: wiktenauer - [Latin] München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.icon. 393 (1540’s)
link: wiktenauer - [German/Latin] Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod.10825/10826 (1550’s)
link : wiktenauer
Schemels von Augsburg, Jeremias
Manuscripts:
- Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 1. 6. 3. Aug. 2° (end 16th century)
Italian Tradition
Although the so-called Italian imperial tradition contains more masters, only the founder of this tradition, Fiore de’i Liberi, wrote about mounted combat and will therefore be the only master treated in this subsection.
De'i Liberi, Fiore
Biography & transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
Biography & transcription: wiktenauer
Manuscripts:
- New York City, Morgan Library, 0383 (Fior di Battaglia) (ca. 1404)
link: wiktenauer - Los Angeles, Paul Getty Museum, Ludwig, XV 13 (Fior di Battaglia) (ca. 1404)
link: wiktenauer - Pissani-Dossi, MS (Flos Duellatorum) (1409)
link : wiktenauer - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Latin, 11269 (Florius de Arte Luctandi) (ca. 1420)
link : wiktenauer - San Daniele del Friuli, Biblioteca Guarneriana, XXIV (Fior di Battaglia) (1699)
link: wiktenauer
Die Blüme des Kämpfes Tradition
There are two manuscripts with this title. Although the title is clearly derived from the work of Fiore de’I Liberi, the contents of these works show clear German influences as well. Therefore, this still poorly understood tradition is treated separately in this subsection.
Die Blüme des Kämpfes
Manuscripts :
Bũech von fechter Vnnd Ringstückhen zũ Ross vnnd Fuoß
Manuscripts:
Manuscripts :
- Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod.5278 (Die Künste des Blümes), ff. 173r-203r (1420’s)
link: wiktenauer - Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, MS B.26 (Eyb Kriegsbuch) 16r-56r (ca. 1500)
link: wiktenauer
Bũech von fechter Vnnd Ringstückhen zũ Ross vnnd Fuoß
Manuscripts:
- Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod.10799 (Bũech von fechter Vnnd Ringstückhen zũ Ross vnnd Fuoß) (1623)
link: wiktenauer
Other medieval manuscripts
This subsection contains other fightbooks from the Middle Ages that cannot be categorized in the other subsections. The intertextuality with the other traditions is still poorly known.
Anonymous, Codex 11093
Description: wiktenauer
Note: This manuscript shows some similarities with the Gladiatoria group, which has no sections on Rossfechten though. On the other hand, the style of the illuminations as well as certain techniques show similarities with the manuscript of Hans Talhoffer. However, as far as Rossfechten is concerned, the techniques appear rather unique. Consequently, this manuscript is not characterized in any of the preceding traditions.
Manuscripts:
anonymous, Cluny Fightbook
Description: wiktenauer
Note: This manuscript appears to be inspired by several other traditions, amongst which the Liechtenauer, Gladiatoria and Marxbrüdertradition. The eclectic nature of this work is also apparent in the short part on Rossfechten. Hence, this work is separately categorized.
Manuscripts:
Description: wiktenauer
Note: This manuscript shows some similarities with the Gladiatoria group, which has no sections on Rossfechten though. On the other hand, the style of the illuminations as well as certain techniques show similarities with the manuscript of Hans Talhoffer. However, as far as Rossfechten is concerned, the techniques appear rather unique. Consequently, this manuscript is not characterized in any of the preceding traditions.
Manuscripts:
- Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod.11093 (1440’s)
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anonymous, Cluny Fightbook
Description: wiktenauer
Note: This manuscript appears to be inspired by several other traditions, amongst which the Liechtenauer, Gladiatoria and Marxbrüdertradition. The eclectic nature of this work is also apparent in the short part on Rossfechten. Hence, this work is separately categorized.
Manuscripts:
- Paris, Musée national du Moyen Âge, MS Cl. 23842
link : wiktenauer
German Traditional Dressage
Traditional Dressage in Germany appears to be particularly well associated with the martial practices. Remarkably, many of the earlier works contain sections which can be clearly described as fight books. The basis for this recurrent feature has been laid by the first work of German Traditional Dressage of Johan Fayser den Jungere, which had a lasting influence until the seventeenth century.
French Traditional Dressage
Although French Dressage was clearly based on the works of Italian Dressage, which envisioned to train horses for martial practices, most French masters consider little martial practices outside of the courses. Antoine de Pluvinel is a notable exception on this rule by having a large section on the practice of jousting and even including some remarks about sword fighting.