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Discorso del Gioco di Spada
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Discorso del Gioco di Spada

Manuscript Italian Italy

Orafo da Cremona

Quality phase 356: Italian fencing manuscript attributed by the Vatican Library to Orafo da Cremona and dated broadly to the sixteenth–seventeenth-century boundary; specialist literature places it in the early seventeenth century, c. 1600–1625.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleDiscorso del Gioco di Spada
AuthorOrafo da Cremona
Earliest publication dateUnknown
LanguageItalian
CountryItaly
Document typeManuscript
Authority statement
Orafo da Cremona
FencingSwordsmanship Sword
Authority Roles
Author
Orafo da Cremona
Edition History
Discorso del Gioco di Spada - MS Urb.lat.1231 1600
CityCremona
PublisherNot specified
PrinterNot specified
FormatManuscript written on both sides
Pages50 folia
Dimensions140 × 205 mm
Witness edition realigned on 2026-07-18 after batch 4/5 alignment audit.

Quality phase 356: corrected from German/Germany/anonymous to Italian/Italy, Cremona, and Orafo da Cremona; date normalized to the early seventeenth century.

Quality phase 696: the official Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana IIIF object supplied an individually inspected physical front binding of the exact manuscript Urb.lat.1231; canvas 1. Image 700x1019, 109372 bytes, SHA-256 E67B49C7A5FD9B6E2A6E12AE557DF7D7B17B048634B765568D785F65A0F9C919.
Digital Witnesses
DigiVatLib facsimile — Urb.lat.1231
Facsimile IIIF/HTML
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana · open
Institutional manuscript facsimile linked in quality phase 356.

Quality phase 696: official Vatican IIIF canvas 1 (piatto anteriore) supplied the individually verified image used as the edition cover.
Wiktenauer manuscript article - Discorso del Gioco di Spada (MS Urb.lat.1231)
HTML OCR
Wiktenauer · open
Realigned to the correct staging source on 2026-07-18 after batch 4/5 alignment audit.