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Principios universales y reglas generales de la verdadera destreza del espadin

Treatise 1805 Spanish Spain

Don Manuel Antonio de Brea

Spanish smallsword treatise by Don Manuel Antonio de Brea, based on a mixed French, Italian, and Spanish doctrine, prepared for the instruction of noble seminarians in Madrid.

The original Madrid printing is now anchored to 1805 from the surviving digital facsimile. Earlier local metadata had split the same title-family into separate 1805 and 1806 records; the more credible 1805 witness is kept as the canonical publication date, while the 1806 report remains noted as a secondary bibliographic witness.

Vigeant 1882 confirms the mixed French, Italian, and Spanish doctrine, the seminary audience, and the full D. Manuel Antonio de Brea titulature.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitlePrincipios universales y reglas generales de la verdadera destreza del espadin
AuthorDon Manuel Antonio de Brea
Earliest publication date1805
LanguageSpanish
CountrySpain
Document typeTreatise
Authority statement
Don Manuel Antonio de Brea
Fencing Verdadera Destreza
Authority Roles
Author
Don Manuel Antonio de Brea
Edition History
Principios universales y reglas generales de la verdadera destreza del espadin 1805
CityMadrid
PublisherImprenta Real
PrinterNot specified
Format
Pages[4] leaves, 68 p.
DimensionsNot specified
Madrid, 1805, Imprenta Real. Open digital facsimile witness from the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes reproduces the original Murcia copy. Gelli also reports an 1806 Madrid witness under the same title-family, which is retained as a secondary bibliographic report rather than a separate work.

Vigeant 1882, pp. 40-41: Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1805. In-4to with 18 copperplates outside the text, dedication, and introduction.

Quality phase 108: exact institutional and copy records confirm the Madrid 1805 quarto at four preliminary leaves, 68 pages and 18 full-page copperplates.
Digital Witnesses
HathiTrust catalog record - Principios universales y reglas generales de la verdadera destreza del espadin
Facsimile
HathiTrust · restricted
Online Books Page record - Principios universales y reglas generales de la verdadera destreza del espadin
Catalogue
Online Books Page · open
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes facsimile
Facsimile HTML/PDF OCR
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes · open
Open facsimile record for the 1805 Madrid printing, based on the University of Murcia copy.
Scholarly References
Gelli entry GEL-P243-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 243 · Entry GEL-P243-E001
Thimm entry 303
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 45 · Entry 303
Vigeant entry VIG-P040-E003
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 40-41 · Entry VIG-P040-E003