Albrecht Dürer fencing sketches (Add MS 5229, ff. 67v–69r)

Manuscript 1512 German Germany

Albrecht Dürer

Canonical witness from Wiktenauer Manuscripts source row 66. Source date: 1512. The identifier is included in the work title to prevent false duplicate matching.

Quality phase 346: the official British Library shelfmark is Add MS 5229, not Sloane MS 5229; Sloane denotes the collection provenance. The fencing drawings occupy fols. 67v–69r within a much larger volume of Dürer sketches and notes and are conventionally dated circa 1512 in Nürnberg.

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TitleAlbrecht Dürer fencing sketches (Add MS 5229, ff. 67v–69r)

AuthorAlbrecht Dürer

Earliest publication date1512

LanguageGerman

CountryGermany

Document typeManuscript

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Albrecht Dürer

Fencing

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Albrecht Dürer fencing sketches — Add MS 5229, ff. 67v–69r 1512

CityNürnberg

PublisherNot specified

PrinterNot specified

FormatPaper album of sketches and notes, with individual leaves mounted on guards

Pages188 paper leaves (fencing sketches on ff. 67v–69r)

Dimensionsapproximately 330 × 220 mm overall; individual leaves vary

Primary manuscript witness. Wiktenauer source row 66; identifier: Sloane MS No.5229; source date: 1512.

Quality phase 346: corrected the inherited shelfmark from Sloane MS 5229 to Add MS 5229. The full host volume extent is recorded separately from the fencing sequence.

Representative cover/frontispiece/title-page/initial-folio image retrieved from the linked Wiktenauer page in phase 643. Edition correspondence and image suitability were individually verified; file 'MS Sloane 5229 67v.png', 800×1054 pixels.

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British Library — Add MS 5229

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Institutional manuscript reference linked in quality phase 346.

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Wiktenauer manuscript article - Albrecht Dürers Fechtbuch (Sloane MS No.5229)

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Created from Wiktenauer Manuscripts batch 3 on 2026-07-17.
Corrected on 2026-07-17 after Wiktenauer Manuscripts batch 3 witness audit.

Wiktenauer image 'MS Sloane 5229 67v.png' used after individual visual and edition-level verification as the representative cover/opening image for edition 3079 in phase 643.

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Albrecht Dürer fencing sketches (Add MS 5229, ff. 67v–69r)

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