MS 862
MS 862 is the number in the nineteenth-century Donaueschingen catalogue of a South German fechtbuch dating to ca. 1500. It is influenced by Paulus Kal and Peter Falkner, and was in turn drawn upon by Jorg Wilhalm (1520s). The manuscript was up for auction at Sotheby's in 2005. It was acquired in 2008 by the Musée National du Moyen Age in Paris, where it was on display {{As of, 2015, lc=y with inventory number CL23842. Contents * fols. 12r-57v, fencing with the longsword, 92 pictures, 37 of them with captions, showing two young men in combat, one dressed in pale red, one in blue. * fols. 60r-69v, fighting with großes Messer, 20 pictures, no captions, the same two young men in chivalric combat. * foll. 72r-87v, fighting with daggers, 32 pictures, one caption, the two young men again. * foll. 95r-114v, grappling, 40 pictures, no captions, the same two young men demonstrating holds and throws and a hold to immobilise two assailants at once (fol.114v). * foll. 118r-131v, fighti ...
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