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Title [I.33 : the illuminated fightbook : Royal Armouries manuscript I.33].

Published [London : Extraordinary Editions, 2013]
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 McFarlin Special Collections O (Fifth Floor)  U860 .R69 2013 Ovrsz     LIB USE ONLY
Descript [4], 63, [1] p. : facsim. ; 32 cm. + companion volume (xii, 127, [1] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.)
Note Facsimile of the oldest known fencing treatise, probably composed by a collaborative of priests at a cathedral school in Würzburg around the year 1300. The text is in Latin, with a few German loan-words, and describes in words and illustrations a system of combat with the sword and buckler.
With: Companion volume: transcription, translation and introduction by Jeffrey Forgeng.
In Latin and German.
Retrospective goatskin binding with gold tooled front cover and spine.
Special Collections note: Sponsors Edition; no. 31/50.
Subject Royal Armouries (Great Britain)
Royal Armouries MS I.33 -- Facsimiles.
Fencing -- Germany -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimiles.
Fencing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimiles.
Fencing -- Manuscripts, Latin -- Facsimiles.
Other Author Forgeng, Jeffrey L.
Royal Armouries (Great Britain)
Senecio Press.
Ludlow Bookbinders.
Other Title Royal Armouries MS I.33.
Illuminated fightbook
Also known as: Tower Fechtbuch
Also known as: Walpurgis manuscript
ISBN 9780957304604
0957304609
Permanent URL http://library.utulsa.edu//record=b2548900*eng
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