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Received: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:33:49 AM EST
From: "Karl Jacobs" <sohei@...>
To: rapier_in_SCA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [rapier_in_SCA] New Joachim Meyer Manuscript Found!

This just came across another list I'm on, and I thought several
folks here would be interested in it. The illustrations are in full-
color, which may be of interest to illuminators, much like the Paulus
Hector Mair manuscript that I posted a link to last year. Meyer's
manuscript is a later-period bit, and is focused mainly on sword
play - as in "friendly tournament bouting" rather than judicial
dueling or warfare, so the text is particularly appropriate to the
combat sports we play in the SCA, albeit with a stronger emphasis on
unarmored combat - the text covers only unarmored combat, but I'm
sure that the longsword material could be adapted easily to armored
combat.

A translation of Meyer's text is available, but it has simpler
illustrations. "The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of
1570" by Joachim Meyer (author), Jeffrey Forgeng (translator); ISBN-
10: 1403970920; ISBN-13: 978-1403970923.

Toshikage
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Thanks to the Lund University Library in Sweden,

http://www6.ub.lu.se/externt/dokument/material/

Save a copy of the pdf, and there you are. It's pretty.

As with the florius, hi-rez scans are 50 euros per page. I think
almost everyone is content with the low-rez version for the moment.

Discussion on this MS: http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?
t=92316


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