Codex Wallerstein

The so-called Codex Wallerstein or Vonn Baumanns Fechtbuch (Oettingen-Wallerstein Cod.

I.6.4o.2, Augsburg University library[1]) is a 16th-century convolution of three 15th-century fechtbuch manuscripts, with a total of 221 pages.

[4] Part A is considered a source for the fechtbuch of Albrecht Dürer of 1512.

[5] It treats longsword, armored combat, stechschild and grappling.

109r, has a register, written in the hand of Paulus Hector Mair (foll.

The first page shows a fencer with various arms.
Illustration of a half-sword thrust against a mordhau in armoured longsword combat. (Plate 214)