Die Royal Armouries in Leeds veröffentlichen in diesem Jahr das älteste erhaltene Fechtbuch der Welt in einer limitierten Faksimile-Ausgabe. Das als I.33 bekannte Fechtbuch von ca. 1300 beschreibt auf 32 Blättern das Fechten mit Schwert und Buckler.
Hier die offizielle Mitteilung:
Royal Armouries to publish oldest known fencing manual in Western World
Royal Armouries Manuscript I.33 is the oldest known fencing manual in the Western world.
In this Olympic year it is being lent for exhibition to The Wallace Collection in London.
The Royal Armouries have taken this opportunity to rebind the manuscript and while it is unbound to photograph it so that a unique full scale facsimile can be published.
The Royal Armouries have teamed up with specialist publishers Extraordinary Editions who have designed a replica early 14th-century binding for the facsimile, which will be packaged in a solander box along with a companion volume and feature a page by page transcription and translation as well as a new introduction by Dr Jeffrey Forgeng of the Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Mass.
MS I.33 will be published as a limited edition and in order to fund the project a limited number of subscriber copies will be made available at £600 [plus postage and packing]. Remaining copies will cost considerably more.
If wish to register for a copy of I.33 please e-mail mm@extraordinaryeditions.com as soon as possible.
The first 25 copies have already been reserved.
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