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Ortenburg Fechtbuch

Manuscript German Germany

Johannes Liechtenauer, Ott Jud, Martin Huntsfeld, Andre Lignitzer, Hans Schwerer

Quality phase 336: the Ortenburg Fechtbuch is a composite of a late-15th-century section and a second section dated 1515. Formerly at the Ortenburg Court Library in Tambach, it was sold in the 1980s and is now in unknown private ownership. Hans Schwerer is recorded only as the probable author/compiler of part 2.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleOrtenburg Fechtbuch
AuthorJohannes Liechtenauer, Ott Jud, Martin Huntsfeld, Andre Lignitzer, Hans Schwerer
Earliest publication dateUnknown
LanguageGerman
CountryGermany
Document typeManuscript
Authority statement
Johannes Liechtenauer; Ott Jud; Martin Huntsfeld; Andre Lignitzer; Hans Schwerer (attributed, part 2)
Fencing
Authority Roles
Author
Johannes Liechtenauer, Ott Jud, Martin Huntsfeld, Andre Lignitzer, Hans Schwerer
Edition History
Ortenburg Fechtbuch - Location unknown 1475
CityNot specified
PublisherNot specified
PrinterNot specified
FormatComposite paper manuscript in a leather binding; double-sided, Bastarda script
Pages171 folios
DimensionsNot specified
Witness edition realigned on 2026-07-18 after batch2 alignment audit.

Quality phase 336: composite witness, with part 1 from the late 1400s and part 2 dated 1515. The legacy year 1475 is retained only as an approximate lower search boundary; current physical location is unknown.
Digital Witnesses
Hagedorn 2022 — Rüstungen und Zweikampfdarstellungen im Ortenburger Fechtbuch
Catalogue HTML
Waffen- und Kostümkunde · open
Institutional digitisation or scholarly publication linked in quality phase 336.

Cover audit phase 719: reviewed in the complete frozen 821-candidate pass. Disposition=secondary_reference. Secondary reference or scholarly page; any displayed image requires separate manifestation-level verification. External probe: HTTP 200; content type text/html; charset=utf-8.

Cover audit phase 740: final outcome=not_primary_manifestation_image; secondary reference retained for scholarship; no independently verified primary manifestation cover was adopted.
Wiktenauer manuscript article - Ortenburg Fechtbuch
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Wiktenauer · open
Realigned to the correct staging source on 2026-07-18 after batch2 alignment audit.

Cover deliberately not assigned in phase 643: the retrieved file is only a no-scan placeholder.

Cover audit phase 719: reviewed in the complete frozen 821-candidate pass. Disposition=already_reviewed_unsuitable. Prior individual audit explicitly rejected this resource: cover deliberately not assigned. External probe: HTTP 200; content type text/html; charset=UTF-8.

Cover audit phase 740: final outcome=previously_rejected; source had already been individually reviewed and rejected as unsuitable for a reliable edition cover.