Fechtbuch : Libr. pict. A 83

Handschrift | illuminated manuscript | manuscript

This fencing-book from the beginning of the 16th century is almost entirely a picture-book that contains hardly any text at all. Instead it comprises 258 drawings on 130 pages. Most of these drawings present a pair of fighters using different cut and thrust weapons common to the time: long- and short-sword and dagger. With regards to its content the anonymous Berlin codex owes much to the written and painted work of Hans Talhofer, a fencing instructor and famous sword fighter for three decades until 1482. By displaying fighters in an arena (folio 6v) the book also refers to fencing as a form of ordeal by battle, the armed duel of two combatants as a last chance to end a legal dispute. Stylistically the pictures closely resemble those of a fencing-book from the school of Albrecht Dürer from 1512.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany -- Libr. pict. A 83
• Umfang: 65 Bl.
• Material: paper
• Sprache: Deutsch
• Anmerkungen: P_Sondermat_WDL

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Reihe: Handschriften digital ; World Digital Library ; Art of Reading in the Middle Ages: previously digitised item

Klassifikation und Themen

• Schlagwort: reading culture ; Medieval (European) ; Reading culture (medieval) ; Reading culture (urban) ; Reading culture (courtly)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Entstanden: Süddeutschland ; Nürnberg? , 1500 - 1599

Weitere Informationen

• PURL: http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00000BBC00000000
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 24.08.1970, 01:00 MEZ