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Grondige Beschryvinge van de Edele ende Ridderlijcke Scherm-ofte Wapen-Konste

Book 1671 Dutch Netherlands

Johannes Georgius Bruchius

Created from the Wiktenauer Books staging import for likely-missing late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century works. Source row 76.

Gelli notes the Leyden 1671 edition with a portrait and 143 copper engravings and cross-refers it to the Dutch bibliography.

Gelli records the 1671 Bruchius edition and points to a related 1676 state.

Castle also records the Leyden 1671 Bruchius witness with portrait and 143 copperplates.

Vigeant 1882 gives the Abraham Verhoef Leyden imprint, the Van Somer portrait, 143 copper engravings, and calls it the only Dutch fencing work known to him.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleGrondige Beschryvinge van de Edele ende Ridderlijcke Scherm-ofte Wapen-Konste
AuthorJohannes Georgius Bruchius
Earliest publication date1671
LanguageDutch
CountryNetherlands
Document typeBook
Authority statement
Johannes Georgius Bruchius
Fencing
Authority Roles
Author
Johannes Georgius Bruchius
Edition History
Grondige Beschryvinge van de Edele ende Ridderlijcke Scherm-ofte Wapen-Konste 1671
CityLeyden
PublisherAbraham Verhoef
PrinterNot specified
FormatOblong 4°
Pages[16], 159, [1] p.
DimensionsNot specified
Primary edition created from Wiktenauer Books batch 9 on 2026-07-17.

Leyden, 1671, bi Abraham Verhoef. Gelli notes a portrait and 143 copper engravings.

Vigeant 1882, p. 41: Leyden, bi Abraham Verhoef, 1671. Oblong 4to with portrait signed Van Somer and 143 copper engravings; includes dedication, address to the reader, epistles, and sonnets.

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.

Exact first-edition copy description checked in quality phase 164 (2026-08-15): [16], 159, [1] pages, oblong quarto, etched author portrait and 35 etched plates. This corrects the inherited nineteenth-century claim of 143 plates.
Digital Witnesses
Wiktenauer article - Grondige Beschryvinge van de Edele ende Ridderlijcke Scherm- ofte Wapen-Konste (Johannes Georgius Bruchius)
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Scholarly References
Castle entry CAS-P075-E006
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 75 · Entry CAS-P075-E006
Gelli entry GEL-P275-E005
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 275-276 · Entry GEL-P275-E005
Gelli entry GEL-P569-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 569 · Entry GEL-P569-E001
Thimm entry 324
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 49 · Entry 324
Vigeant entry VIG-P041-E001
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 41 · Entry VIG-P041-E001