Category Archives: Here Commences the Fencing with the Staff – Historical Staff Fencing of Europe

Hans Talhoffer

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Andreas Quast

I have owned a facsimile edition of the Ambraser Codex since the erly 2000s. It was expensive but well worth it. The edition was self-published in Prague in 1889 by fencing master Gustav Hergsell, who dealt in detail with Talhoffers … Continue reading →

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Gladiatoria — Ms. Germ. Quart. 16

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Andreas Quast

This manuscript originally rested in the former royal library in Berlin, but since 1945 was considered a loss of war. In the 1980s, Hans-Peter Hils rediscovered it at the Biblioteka Jagiellonski, in Krakow. Weapon and armaments collector Peter Schlegel limited … Continue reading →

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Here Commences the Fencing with the Staff

Posted on August 19, 2018 by Andreas Quast

Within the fencing traditions of the staff, we find a written entry in the manuscript Cod.Hs.3227 of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany. This manuscript is dated to around 1389. This Latin-German manuscript collection includes texts with technical, medical, astrological … Continue reading →

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