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Three Treatises on the Art of Fencing (Add MS 17533)

Manuscript German

Heinrich von und zum Velde, Erhardus Henning

British Library Add MS 17533. Includes thrust-fencing texts associated with H.A.V., anonymous dagger material and an expanded cut-fencing text related to Erhardus Henning. Modern comparative scholarship supports identifying H.A.V. as Heinrich von und zum Velde.

Quality phase 350: London and the United Kingdom are repository metadata, not demonstrated origin. The codex also contains an expanded cut-fencing text by Erhardus Henning on ff. 118v–127v.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleThree Treatises on the Art of Fencing (Add MS 17533)
AuthorHeinrich von und zum Velde, Erhardus Henning
Earliest publication dateUnknown
LanguageGerman
CountryNot specified
Document typeManuscript
Authority statement
Heinrich von und zum Velde; Erhardus Henning (final section)
FencingSwordsmanship
Authority Roles
Author
Heinrich von und zum Velde, Erhardus Henning
Edition History
Three Treatises on the Art of Fencing (Add MS 17533) Undated
CityNot specified
PublisherNot specified
PrinterNot specified
FormatManuscript on paper; folio, double-sided
Pages127 folia
Dimensions200 × 315 mm
British Library, Add MS 17533; mid-seventeenth century.

Quality phase 101o year decision [manuscript_or_century_only]: undated manuscript or witness described only by a broad century; exact publication year intentionally left unset.

Quality phase 350: London removed from the production-place field because it identifies only the British Library repository. Existing extent and dimensions were independently reconfirmed.
Digital Witnesses
Scholarly analysis and comparison
HTML HTML/PDF OCR
Acta Periodica Duellatorum · open
Peer-reviewed analysis supporting the H.A.V./Heinrich von und zum Velde attribution.

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 206; 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 - Three treatises on the art of fencing (Add MS 17533)
HTML OCR
Wiktenauer · open
Realigned to the correct staging source on 2026-07-18 after batch 4/5 alignment audit.

Cover deliberately not assigned in phase 644: 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.
Holding Institutions
British Library
ShelfmarkAdd MS 17533
Statusconfirmed
Access notes
Consult British Library access conditions.
Condition report
Provenance
Scholarly References
Thimm entry 315b — Add MS 17533
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 47 · Entry 315b
Thimm entry 791
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 120 · Entry 791