Albrecht Duerer's Fechtbuch

[Jeremiah Backhaus]

Does anyone know where to find a print of Duerer's text? I can't read his handwriting.

-Jeremiah (GFS)

[Jeffrey Hull]

Why yes. Schola Gladiatoria helpfully offer PDFs that amount to the whole facsimile by Doernhoeffer (parts 1-5)

http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/topics/

You shall find that one of the PDFs has the whole text transcribed. It is confusing because there is also accompanying transcriptions of identical plates from Codex Wallerstein, and a bunch of commentary and concordance charts. But all Duerer's text is there transcribed. I find Doernhoeffer's transcription of it to be quite accurate.

[Jeremiah Backhaus]

Thank you very much, this will be quite fun and challenging.

-Jeremiah (GFS)

[Vance Osterhout]

If this is the same Albrecht Durer famous for his woodcuts and paintings, then I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed in the illustrations. From what I've seen Mair's Fechtbuch looks as if it was illustrated by Albrecht Durer.

[Mark Driggs]

If this is the same Albrecht Durer famous for his woodcuts and paintings, then I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed in the illustrations. From what I've seen Mair's Fechtbuch looks as if it was illustrated by Albrecht Durer.

It's the same Dürer. The collection of sketches is just that: sketches. The likely theory seems to be that this was a commission piece that never got completed, hence the lack of descriptive text throughout much of it. Considering he probably composed the sketches quickly while visiting a fechtschule, I think they are of fine quality given the context. My biggest beef is that the intended manual was left incomplete.

[Brian Hunt]

If this is the same Albrecht Durer famous for his woodcuts and paintings, then I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed in the illustrations. From what I've seen Mair's Fechtbuch looks as if it was illustrated by Albrecht Durer.

Paulus Hector Mair's illustrations in his 3 primary volumes were done by Jorg Breu the younger (a famous renaissance painter) and a fourth volume had illustrations done by Heinrich Vogtherr.

all the best.

Brian Hunt

[Jaron Bernstein]

If this is the same Albrecht Durer famous for his woodcuts and paintings, then I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed in the illustrations. From what I've seen Mair's Fechtbuch looks as if it was illustrated by Albrecht Durer.

Paulus Hector Mair's illustrations in his 3 primary volumes were done by Jorg Breu the younger (a famous renaissance painter) and a fourth volume had illustrations done by Heinrich Vogtherr.

all the best.

Brian Hunt

All thanks to the good taxpayers of Augsburg, with or without their permission!

[Matt Bryant]

Bless Mair. When I learned that he was embezzling money to make fechtbucher I got a very high opinion of him. I mean, a city official embezzling is a given. Its what you use it for that counts.

[Thomas Jancarik]

I do believe it was Joachim Meyer that was executed for embezzling funds, not Hector Mair.

[Jaron Bernstein]

I do believe it was Joachim Meyer that was executed for embezzling funds, not Hector Mair.

Paulus Hector Mair got executed for his (ahem) creative financing of his hobby. If only he had Gene as his attorney.....

[Brian Hunt]

I do believe it was Joachim Meyer that was executed for embezzling funds, not Hector Mair.

Sorry, it was Paulus Hector Mair. He was executed for embezalling city funds from the City of Augsburg.

all the best.

Brian Hunt.

[Thomas Jancarik]

My mistake.