MS 2031: A New Italian Rapier Manuscript: Transcription and Translation
MS 2031 is a short, anonymous Italian rapier manuscript, probably dating from the early seventeenth century, preserved in the Sächsisches Staatsarchiv in Germany. It was discovered there by Chris Vanslambrouck, who transcribed it and generously shared his work with the historical fencing community. It contains just ten folios of fencing instruction, but those few pages … Read more