Editing Codex Wallerstein (section)

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[[Image:Augsburg Cod.I.6.4º.2 (Codex Wallerstein) 1r.jpg|thumb|240px|The first page shows a fencer with various arms.]]
[[Image:Augsburg Cod.I.6.4º.2 (Codex Wallerstein) 107v.jpg|240px|thumb|Illustration of a [[half-sword]] thrust against a ''[[Mordhau (weaponry)|mordhau]]'' in [[plate armour|armoured]] [[langes schwert|longsword]] combat. (Plate 214)]]

The so-called '''Codex Wallerstein''' or '''''Vonn Baumanns Fechtbuch''''' (Oettingen-Wallerstein Cod. I.6.4<sup>o</sup>.2, [[Augsburg University library]]<ref>The conventional name of ''Codex Wallerstein'' was given to the ms. in the context of [[HEMA revival]] c. 2000; Perhaps first mentioned online in early 2000 at [https://web.archive.org/web/20000124135434/http://www.thehaca.com/pdf/CodexW.htm thehaca.com] as "the rare Codex Wallerstein" (without signature), and in December 2000 as "Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg: Cod. I.6.4° 2 A relatively unknown manuscript also known as the Codex Wallerstein" at [https://web.archive.org/web/20010227040219/http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/baumans/baumansHome.htm aemma.org], the name ''Codex Wallerstein'' being adopted  by Grzegorz Zabinski in ''Several Remarks on the Bloßfechen Section of Codex Wallerstein'', Journal of Western Martial Art, April 2001. There is, however, a group of seven "Wallerstein" fechtbücher (combat treatises), besides  Cod. I.6.4º.2 all dating to the 16th century: Cod. I.6.2º.1: a 16th-century copy of a ms. by [[Hans Talhoffer]]; Cod. I.6.2º.2: a convolution containing: Jörg Wilhalm: Bloßfechten mit dem langen Schwert, 1523 (2r-41r); Johannes Liechtenauer: Kunst des langen Schwerts, 1523 (42r-49r); Lienhart Sollinger: Ergründung ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterei, 1564 (50r-72r). Cod. I.6.2º.3: a ms. by [[Jörg Wilhalm]], dated 1522; Cod. I.6.2º.4: mid-16th century; Cod. I.6.2º.5 a convolution of two mss.:  Augsburger Fechtordnung (1r-5v) - Ordnung und Chronik der Fechtbruderschaft Unserer Lieben Frau und Sankt Markus zu Frankfurt 1491 - 1566 (7r-20r) - Johannes Liechtenauer, Kunst des langen Schwerts (21r-42v) - Maerteen van Heemskerk, Fechter- und Ringerpaare (Stahlstiche, 43v-49r). Cod. I.6.4.5: dated 1522. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20220331102728/https://media.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/?id=34536&dir=34536 Fechtbücher aus der Bibliothek Oettingen-Wallerstein (media.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de)].</ref>) is a 16th-century convolution of three 15th-century [[fechtbuch]] manuscripts, with a total of 221 pages.

The inside of the cover is inscribed ''1549. Vom baumanns 108'', suggesting that the manuscript belonged to one Michael Baumann, listed as a [[mercenary]] by profession in the tax registers of Augsburg between 1471 and 1495.<ref>
Hils (1991), p. 27, fn. 63</ref> The manuscript came in the possession of [[Paulus Hector Mair]] in 1556.<ref>Mair inscribed the first page, noting the day of acquisition,  ''vber khumben jm 1556 Jar am 26. Januarj Paulus hector Mair zu geherig''</ref> After Mair's execution in 1579, the manuscript may have passed to the library of Marcus Fugger, whose library was sold by his grandson in 1653, passing into the [[Oettingen-Wallerstein library]].