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Dussack fencing in culture

Films, books, historical sources and other works connected with Dussack fencing, a style of the German School of Fencing family (Germany). 6 works.

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Manuscripts 3

1540Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica (Paulus Hector Mair)Illustrated fencing compendium by Augsburg official Paulus Hector Mair from the fifteen-forties, in 16 books, surviving in copies in Dresden, Munich and Vienna.German School of FencingHEMARingen1545Jörg Breu Draftbook (Cod.I.6.2º.4)Augsburg manuscript from around 1545 with wrestling sections after Gregor Erhart and preparatory sketches by Jörg Breu's workshop for Mair's work on fencing.German School of FencingRingenHEMA1591Das Ander Theil Des Newen Kůnstreichen Fechtbůches (Cod.Guelf.83.4 Aug.8º)Anonymous unfinished manuscript from 1591 in Wolfenbüttel with the teaching of the free fencers on the two-handed sword, halberd, dagger, dussack and wrestling.RingenHEMA

Treatises 3

1516Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey (Andre Paurñfeyndt, 1516)Fencing manual by Andre Paurenfeyndt printed in 1516 in Vienna, with 32 illustrations for the sword, dussack, staff, dagger and buckler, written for young pupils.German School of FencingHEMA1579De Veris Principiis Artis Dimicatoriae (Heinrich von Gunterrodt, 1579)A Neo-Latin treatise by Heinrich von Gunterrodt printed in Wittenberg in 1579, an abridged version of his manuscript Sciomachia et hoplomachia on the theory and history of fencing.HEMARingen1612New Kůnstliches Fechtbuch (Jakob Sutor von Baden, 1612)Jakob Sutor's 1612 Frankfurt print, which takes over Meyer's teaching on the sword, dussack and staff and adds the rapier after Michael Hundt.German School of FencingHEMA