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Deutliche und Grundliche Erklarung der Adelichen und Ritterlichen freyen Fechtkunst

Book 1664 German Germany

Jéann Daniel L’Ange

Major engraved German witness of the Italian-influenced thrust-fencing tradition, printed at Heidelberg in 1664. Gelli stresses the long-form title and the Italianate character of the doctrine. Vigeant 1882 adds the portrait by C. Metzger, the count of sixty-one copperplates, and remarks that although L'Ange adopts many principles then current in France, the attitudes in the engravings still recall the Italian school.

Final Vigeant duplicate sweep on 2026-08-11 folded the weaker authorless shell of L'Ange's 1664 Heidelberg treatise (work 361) into this canonical record.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleDeutliche und Grundliche Erklarung der Adelichen und Ritterlichen freyen Fechtkunst
AuthorJéann Daniel L’Ange
Earliest publication date1664
LanguageGerman
CountryGermany
Document typeBook
Authority statement
Jéann Daniel L’Ange
Fencing
Authority Roles
Author
Jéann Daniel L’Ange
Edition History
Deutliche und Grundliche Erklarung der Adelichen und Ritterlichen freyen Fechtkunst 1664
CityHeidelberg
PublisherAdrian Weingarten
PrinterNot specified
FormatOblong 8°
Pages[12], 132 p.
Dimensions153 × 195 mm
Heidelberg, bey Adrian Meingarten, 1664. Oblong 8vo. Portrait of the author by C. Metzger and 61 copperplates. With dedication, address to the reader, and epistle to the author. Vigeant 1882, pp. 27-28.

Quality phase 101k: production/publication place recovered from an explicit, manifestation-matching statement after individual review.

Quality phase 101m: explicit imprint agent linked after final individual review.

Complete Göttingen facsimile inspected in quality phase 163 (2026-08-15): 158 digital images include covers and blank capture images; the bibliographic sequence is [12], 132 pages. The title page reads Adrian Weingarten and Jéann Daniel L’Ange. Contemporary descriptions confirm the portrait and 61 engraved fencing plates.
Digital Witnesses
Wiktenauer article - Deutliche Erklarung der Fechtkunst (Johann Daniel Lange)
HTML OCR
Wiktenauer · open
Created from Wiktenauer Books batch 8 on 2026-07-17.
Scholarly References
Gelli entry GEL-P270-E002
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 270-271 · Entry GEL-P270-E002
Thimm entry 1219
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 183 · Entry 1219
Thimm entry 86
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 17 · Entry 86
Vigeant entry VIG-P027-E002
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 27-28 · Entry VIG-P027-E002