Swordplay: An Anonymous, Illustrated Dutch Fencing Treatise for Fencing with Rapier, Sword and Polearms From 1595

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Tucked away in the Newberry Library of Chicago is an anonymous manuscript entitled Schermkunst ('Art of Swordsmanship'), whose brief text and exquisite watercolours details fencing with the single sword, rapier and dagger, rapier and buckler, halberd, and full pike. Beyond its artistic charms,...