Fencing/HMA Resources
A collection of useful resources for fencers:
Fighting Manuals
Doebringer, Hanko Cod.HS.3227a Transcription and Translation
DiGrassi, Giacomo “His True Arte of Defense” (Transcription)
Agrippa, Camillo “Treatise on the Science of Armes” (Excerpts)
Hutton, Alfred “Old Sword Play”
Swetnam, Joseph “The Schoole of the Noble and Worthy Arte of Defense” Part 1
and Swetnam, Joseph “The Schoole of the Noble and Worthy Arte of Defense” Part 2
CapoFerro, Ridolfo “Great Representation of the Art and the Use of Fencing” (Translation. Plates available upon request)
Silver, George “Briefe Instructions” and “Paradoxes of Defense”
Cunningham, A.C. “The Cane as Weapon” Early 20th Century self defense with cane
Provided on Request:
Caranza, Jeronimo “The Treatise of the Philosophy of Armes…”
DiGrassi, Giacomo “His True Arte of Defense” (Facsimile)
Jones, Richard “The Booke of Honor and Armes”
Anon. “A Very Proper Treatise”
Mascall, Leonard “A Proper Booke…”
Saviolo, Vincentio “His Practise”
Ringeck, Sigmund “Commentaries on Johann Liechtenauer”