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L'art en fait d'armes, ou de l'epee seule, avec les attitudes

Treatise 1696 French France

Jean de Labat

L-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-l, source entry 1174. Retitled from title with dedication note.

The current Gelli OCR stream appears to read the Labat / Armaignac witness as 1606, but stronger bibliographic tradition and surviving facsimile references consistently identify the Toulouse edition as 1696. The catalogue therefore keeps 1696 and preserves Gelli's current reading only as an OCR or print-reading error.

Castle also records the Toulouse 1696 Labat witness.

Vigeant 1882 also preserves a brief Toulouse Labat notice circa 1690, with plates, but the notice is too short to justify a separate public work; it is retained here as family context pending stronger evidence.

Vigeant 1882 treats the 1696 Toulouse Armaignac witness as one of the serious technical books that helped establish the French school. He stresses its influence on later masters such as Angelo, Martin, and Andrew Mahon, and also notes the appended regulation of ancient assauts at Toulouse.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleL'art en fait d'armes, ou de l'epee seule, avec les attitudes
AuthorJean de Labat
Earliest publication date1696
LanguageFrench
CountryFrance
Document typeTreatise
Authority Roles
Author
Jean de Labat
Edition History
L'art en fait d'armes, ou de l'epee seule, avec les attitudes 1696
CityToulouse
PublisherJ. Boude
PrinterNot specified
Format
PagesNot specified
DimensionsNot specified
A Toulouse, 1696, chez J. Boude. Gelli's current OCR review appears to read 1606, but stronger bibliographic tradition keeps 1696. Gelli also confirms 12 plates outside the text, engraved by Simonin, together with the prefatory matter.

Vigeant 1882, pp. 76-77: A Toulouse, chez J. Boude, 1696. Dedicated to the Comte d'Armaignac; 12 copper plates engraved by Simonin outside the text, with dedication, preface, and permission. Vigeant stresses its technical seriousness, influence, and appended assaut regulation.
Scholarly References
Castle entry CAS-P084-E004
Castle (1892)
Egerton Castle, Schools and Masters of Fence, from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. With a complete bibliography. New and revised edition. London: George Bell & Sons, 1892.
Pages 84 · Entry CAS-P084-E004
Gelli entry GEL-P413-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 413 · Entry GEL-P413-E001
Thimm entry 1198
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 180 · Entry 1198
Vigeant entry VIG-P076-E002
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 76 · Entry VIG-P076-E002
Vigeant entry VIG-P076-E003
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 76-77 · Entry VIG-P076-E003