Manuscripts

The following list is based on the manuscript catalogue (Handschriftenkatalog = HK) that Hans-Peter Hils has compiled for his book "Meister Johann Liechtenauers Kunst des langen Schwertes". Listed are German fencing manuals (Fechtbücher) from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is complemented by recent insight and additional manuscripts that were unknown to Hils at the time. These don't carry a number in the column "HK" (Handschriftenkatalog/manuscript catalogue). The sorting follows the depository alphabetically. Locations and library numbers are adjusted as far as they were changed since Hils' publication. A second column ("Beck") displays the numbering taken from "Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters, Band 4/2, Lieferung 1/2: 38. Fecht- und Ringbücher", Verlag C.H. Beck München. Each description of the manuscripts begins with the numeral "38."; the book is divided in 10 sections, and each section contains the descriptions of the single volumes. The numbering shown here starts after the leading "38." The column "Time" can only provide a rough reference point about the time of origin since a number of manuscripts were bound together from various individual parts with an inconsitent dating (for instance HK 2, 6, etc.).