B-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-b, source entry 214. Retitled from long descriptive title. Duplicate work 3467 consolidated here in quality phase 98e (2026-08-14).
Rennes, 1653, chez Julien Herbert. Very rare and especially sought after in Italy. Gelli highlights its early fleuret terminology and its practical/theoretical contribution to French fencing.
Vigeant 1882, pp. 37-38: Rennes, chez Julien Herbert, imprimeur et libraire, rue St-Germain, à l'Image S. Ivlien, 1653. With royal privilege, frontispiece designed by Montaillier and engraved by Baugin, and 4 copperplates outside the text, the last showing a pistol duel. Transferred from duplicate work 3467 in quality phase 98e (2026-08-14).
Quality phase 101k: production/publication place recovered from an explicit, manifestation-matching statement after individual review.
Quality phase 101m: explicit imprint agent linked after final individual review.
Quality phase 292: The exact Rennes 1653 description records a Baugin frontispiece after Montaillier and four out-of-text copperplates.
Quality phase 479: corrected the impossible imported date 1891 to the manifestation date 1653; Thimm confirms Rennes, Julien Herbert, and four copperplates. Edition 3539 represents the same manifestation and is retained for later deduplication.
Besnard duplicate manifestation 508 consolidated into edition 3539 in enrichment phase 577.
Legacy duplicate edition 508 and all its evidence were consolidated here in enrichment phase 577.
Digital Witnesses
Thimm bibliography — phase 479 edition 508
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Thimm bibliography · open
Research witness linked in quality phase 479 (50-edition batch). Transferred from Besnard edition 508 during enrichment phase 577.
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 83 · Entry CAS-P083-E002
Gelli entry GEL-P346-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 346 · Entry GEL-P346-E001
Thimm entry 237
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 37 · Entry 237
Vigeant entry VIG-P037-E001
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
