Durer's Messer Book?

[woodwose]

I've read from a few places that Durer wrote (or at least illustrated) a manual for fighting with messers. Does anyone know any thing about this? I've looked through tons of books that have supposedly been "the complete works of Durer" sort of books, but have only ever seen what seems like a single page from a book on messer fighting.

[SyrRhys]

You can find the Friedrich Dornhoffer version of Durer's Fechtbuch here:
http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/topics/durer/

The first three .pdf's are Dornhoffer's discussion of the text; the last two are sword, messer, dagger and grappling.

Please bear in mind that Durer was not, as far as anyone today can tell, a student of der Kunst des Fechten (I haven't studied this personally since it's past the period I study, but those with serious credentials have), and there's a strong argument that Durer was merely copying the earlier Wallerstein Codex or was simply drawing pictures at a Fechtschule that he liked. There are some wonky things in here that aren't in any other Fechtbuch with which I'm familiar, but parts of it are so precisely like the Wallerstein Codex it's amazing, so I personally think it's a combination of the two.