Manuscript

Monomachia ovvero Arte di Scherma
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Monomachia ovvero Arte di Scherma

Manuscript Italian Italy

Francesco di Sandro Altoni, Giovanni Altoni, Francesco di Lorenzo Altoni

Created from the Wiktenauer Manuscripts staging import. Source row 83. Signature: MS L.V.23

Gelli records Monomachia ovvero Arte di Scherma as a manuscript notice. External manuscript catalogues confirm Francesco di Sandro Altoni and preserve two manuscript witnesses, including MS L.V.23 and MS II.iii.315.

Quality phase 371: the dedication to Cosimo I as Duke of Florence supports only the interval 1539–1569. The exact 1539 publication-style date was removed; attribution remains with Francesco di Sandro Altoni following the specialist and corpus records, while variant modern identifications are noted in scholarship.

Quality phase 390: a recent doctoral study reports that the editors now regard the name Francesco di Sandro in the Florence witness as erroneous and tentatively attribute its late-century revision to Giovanni Altoni, working from Francesco di Lorenzo Altoni’s text and another lost witness. The older attribution is retained explicitly as traditional, not certain.

Quality phase 646: legacy Thimm/Castle work 346 was consolidated here. It describes the same Monomachia manuscript tradition already represented by the witness-specific editions MS L.V.23 and MS II.iii.315. Thimm's Francesco di Lorenzo attribution, the traditional Francesco di Sandro attribution, and the tentative Giovanni Altoni revision hypothesis are preserved as distinct authority relationships rather than collapsed.

2 Editions
4 Resources
0 Holdings
3 References
Bibliographic Overview
TitleMonomachia ovvero Arte di Scherma
AuthorFrancesco di Sandro Altoni, Giovanni Altoni, Francesco di Lorenzo Altoni
Earliest publication dateUnknown
LanguageItalian
CountryItaly
Document typeManuscript
Authority statement
Traditionally Francesco di Sandro Altoni; recent scholarship proposes Giovanni Altoni as the reviser of Francesco di Lorenzo Altoni’s treatise
DuellingFencing Sword
Authority Roles
Author
Francesco di Sandro Altoni, Giovanni Altoni, Francesco di Lorenzo Altoni
Edition History
Monomachia ovvero Arte di Scherma - MS L.V.23 Undated
CityNot specified
PublisherNot specified
PrinterNot specified
FormatManuscript; double-sided
Pages72 folia
DimensionsNot specified
Primary manuscript witness created from Wiktenauer Manuscripts batch 7 on 2026-07-17.

Quality phase 222: reviewed same-year group; distinct manifestation/witness — Distinct manuscripts L.V.23 and II.iii.315.

Quality phase 371: the unsupported exact year was removed; the 72-folio extent and double-sided manuscript format were recorded.
Monomachia ovvero Arte di Scherma - MS II.iii.315 Undated
CityNot specified
PublisherNot specified
PrinterNot specified
FormatItalian paper manuscript; double-sided
Pages72 folios
DimensionsNot specified
Witness-specific edition split from collapsed Wiktenauer manuscript import on 2026-07-17.

Quality phase 222: reviewed same-year group; distinct manifestation/witness — Distinct manuscripts L.V.23 and II.iii.315.

Quality phase 390: removed the residual integer 1539, which contradicted the established 1539–1569 range, and recorded the witness extent of 72 folios.

Quality phase 646: duplicate edition 347 was consolidated into this MS II.iii.315 witness. Its Thimm/Castle context, cover provenance and prior field-review evidence were retained. Representative opening image: MS II.iii.315 Ir, 800×546 pixels.
Digital Witnesses
The Bolognese Tradition — manuscript bibliography
HTML
Acta Periodica Duellatorum · open
Authority or scholarly resource linked in quality phase 390.
European Fight Books 1305–1630 — corpus catalogue
Catalogue HTML
Acta Periodica Duellatorum · open
External authority linked in quality phase 371.
Wiktenauer manuscript article - Monomachia ovvero Arte di Scherma (MS II.iii.315)
HTML OCR
Wiktenauer · open
Reassigned to witness-specific edition during collapsed-edition fix on 2026-07-17.

Cover deliberately not assigned in phase 645: the same manuscript is already represented by edition 347 and requires catalogue consolidation before sharing its image.

Research witness linked in quality phase 454.

Wiktenauer image 'MS II.iii.315 Ir.jpg' used after individual visual and edition-level verification as the representative cover/opening image for edition 347 in phase 643.

Quality phase 646: the duplicate phase-454 Wiktenauer link formerly attached to edition 347 was consolidated here.
Wiktenauer manuscript article - Monomachia ovvero Arte di Scherma (MS L.V.23)
HTML OCR
Wiktenauer · open
Created from Wiktenauer Manuscripts batch 7 on 2026-07-17.

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.
Scholarly References
Castle entry CAS-P043-E001
Castle (1892)
Egerton Castle, Schools and Masters of Fence, from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. With a complete bibliography. New and revised edition. London: George Bell & Sons, 1892.
Pages 43 · Entry CAS-P043-E001
Gelli entry GEL-P587-E002
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 587 · Entry GEL-P587-E002
Thimm entry 69
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 14 · Entry 69