jan 1, 1529 - 1530's │ LEBKOMMER Hans │ LIECHTENAUER Johannes │ LIGNITZER Andre │ PAURENFEYNDT Andre │ Der Altenn Fechter Anfengliche Kunst.

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│ 1530's (1531 - 1537)
Der altenn Fechter anfengliche Kunst. Mit sampt verborgenen Heymlicheyttenn, Kämpffens, Ringens, Werffens, & c. Figürlich fürgemalet, Bissher nie ann tag kommen

Translation:
The original skills of ancient fencers. Including secret instructions on fighting, wrestling, throwing & c. illustrated and not published before

│ 1545 (Approximation)
Der Altenn Fechter an fengliche Kunst,

Translation: The original skills of ancient fencers.

│ 1558 (Approximation)
Fechtbuch: die ritterliche, mannliche Kunst und Handarbeyt Fechtens und Kempffens. Auss warem ursprunglichem Grund der Alten, mit sampt heymlichen Geschwindigkeyten, in Leibsnoten sich des Feindes trostlich zuermehren, und ritterliche obzusigen Klsrlich beschrieven und fürgemalet

Translation:
Fencing-book: the knightly, manly art and handwork of fencing and fighting. As truly and originally practiced by the elders, including secret methods by which to rightly defend oneself victoriously when threatended by the enemy, precisely described and illustrated


The first three printings of the book are undated, but the first edition, titled Der Allten Fechter gründtliche Kunst, must have been printed between 1531, when Egenolff set up his shop in Frankfurt-am-Main, and Weiditz' death in 1537; a copy of the first edition that recently came up for auction was dated to ca. 1535, but this date seems speculative.
The second edition, titled Der Altenn Fechter an fengliche Kunst, and the third edition, titled Fechtbuch. Die Ritterliche, Mannliche Kunst, were released some time before Egenolff's own death in 1555. In 1558, Egenolff's heirs published a fourth edition (titled the same as the third) posthumously.

In the 1600s, a fairly faithful manuscript including portions of both this text and Albrecht Dürer's OPLODIDASKALIA sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri was created by an unknown scribe (it has since been lost).

Citations:
Pardoel 2005, 1460/61.01
Vigeant 1882, 80
Gelli 1895, 264
Thimm 1896, 162 (1531?)
BLGC 1979 (vol. 186), 461
Nagy 1987, 6 (1529)
Schwigat 1987, 1529
K.U. Leuven 1998, 57 (7)

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