Quality phase 341: catalogue datings range from circa 1500 to the sixteenth century; stylistic comparison favours the second or third decade of the sixteenth century. Ripuarian language supports Köln or its region as a probable, not certain, origin.
FormatPaper manuscript in a reused thirteenth-century Gospel-leaf binding; black ink with red rubrication
Pages23 folios
Dimensions145 × 100 mm
Witness edition realigned on 2026-07-18 after batch2 alignment audit.
Quality phase 341: Köln is a probable regional attribution based on Ripuarian language, not a documented colophon. Dating remains circa 1500, with a scholarly stylistic proposal of the 1510s–1530s.
Digital Witnesses
The Kölner Fechtbuch: Context and Comparison
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Acta Periodica Duellatorum · open
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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.
