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L'art de tirer des armes, réduit en abrégé méthodique
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L'art de tirer des armes, réduit en abrégé méthodique

Book 1721 French France

Jean de Brye

B-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-b, source entry 304. Retitled from museum heading mixed with work title.

French fencing treatise by J. de Brye. The inherited local record had been polluted by a museum-heading fragment and by the later 1731 witness; Gelli and the underlying Thimm line confirm Paris, 1721, C. L. Thiboust, as the primary edition, with a second edition appearing ten years later.

Castle also records the Paris 1721 J. de Brye witness.

Vigeant 1882 emphasizes the frontispiece, the Dauphin medallion signed Boudan, and the transitional place of de Brye between the older and modern French schools.

2 Editions
3 Resources
0 Holdings
4 References
Bibliographic Overview
TitleL'art de tirer des armes, réduit en abrégé méthodique
AuthorJean de Brye
Earliest publication date1721
LanguageFrench
CountryFrance
Document typeBook
Authority statement
Jean de Brye
Authority Roles
Author
Jean de Brye
Edition History
L'art de tirer des armes, réduit en abrégé méthodique. Dédié à Monseigneur le Maréchal duc de Villeroy 1721
CityParis
PublisherD. L. Thibourt
PrinterNot specified
Format8°
PagesIn-8° , pièces liminaires et 78 p., front. gr.
DimensionsNot specified
Paris, 1721, chez C. L. Thiboust, place de Cambray. Frontispiece and medallion portrait of the Dauphin. Gelli treats the work as a very rare and important witness to the transition between older and newer French fencing theories.

Vigeant 1882, pp. 41-42: Paris, chez C. L. Thiboust, place de Cambray, 1721. With approbation and royal privilege; frontispiece for the maréchal duc de Villeroy and dedication headpiece with the Dauphin portrait signed Boudan.

Quality phase 285: illustration/plate description recovered after individual manifestation-level review of the already-linked bibliographic notes.

Quality phase 288: The Paris 1721 description distinguishes the frontispiece from the Dauphin medallion used as a dedication headpiece.

Cover retrieved from Internet Archive item BIUSante_90958x090x06 in phase 636; official item image or verified title page, validated at 180×336 pixels.
L’art de tirer des armes, réduit en abrégé méthodique — 2e édition 1731
CityParis
PublisherNot specified
PrinterNot specified
FormatNot specified
PagesNot specified
DimensionsNot specified
Second edition cited by Thimm/Gelli family note as appearing ten years after the 1721 primary edition.

Quality phase 419: Castle confirms this as the Paris 1731 second edition; publisher and physical extent remain unresolved.
Digital Witnesses
Thimm bibliography — phase 462 edition 3545
Catalogue PDF
Thimm bibliography · open
Research witness linked in quality phase 462 (50-edition batch).
BIU Santé — L’art de tirer des armes (1721)
Catalogue PDF OCR
BIU Santé / Internet Archive · open
Exact 1721 digital witness linked to the work family in quality phase 419.

Official Internet Archive image used as the cover for edition 597 in phase 636.
Bibliothèque nationale de France — L'Art de tirer des armes, réduit en abrégé méthodique... par J. de Brye,...
Catalogue HTML
Bibliothèque nationale de France · open
Exact manifestation match located during the complete external research campaign of quality phase 264 (2026-08-25). Catalogue identifier: ark:/12148/cb301717663.
Scholarly References
Castle entry CAS-P084-E005
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 84 · Entry CAS-P084-E005
Gelli entry GEL-P356-E001
Gelli (1890)
Jacopo Gelli, Bibliografia generale della scherma con note critiche, biografiche e storiche.
Pages 356 · Entry GEL-P356-E001
Thimm entry 326
Thimm (1896)
Carl A. Thimm, A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling.
Pages 49 · Entry 326
Vigeant entry VIG-P041-E002
Vigeant (1882)
Arsène Vigeant, La Bibliographie de l'escrime ancienne et moderne. Paris: Imprimé par Motteroz, 1882.
Pages 41-42 · Entry VIG-P041-E002