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This page is where I'm hosting various historical fencing documents. If you have a file you'd like to have hosted here, please contact me at: tyson at tysonwright dot com

While the historical treatises are old enough that copyright doesn't apply, copyright can apply to scans, photos, translations, etc. I believe that everything posted here is clear, but if you own the copyright on any of it and want it removed, please contact me at the above address and I'll take care of it.

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Author

Title

Type

Content

Size

Pages

Anon

Art of Fencing Represented in Proper Figures

PDF

Scans of original

875 KB

12

Anon

Art of Defence

PDF

Scans of original

6.1 MB

24

G.A

Pallas Armata

PDF

Scans of original

8.5 MB

66

George Hale

The Private Schoole of Defence

PDF

Scans of original

2.3 MB

23

George Silver

Paradoxes of Defence

PDF

Scans of original

8.3 MB

43

Giacomo Di Grassi

His True Arte of Defence

PDF

Scans of original

14.5 MB

93

Joseph Swetnam

The Schoole of the Noble and Worthy Science of Defence

PDF

Scans of original

13.4 MB

116

William Hope

The Compleat Fencing-Master

PDF

Scans of original

12.1 MB

124

Vincentio Saviolo

His Practise

PDF

Scans of original

22.7 MB

153

Thomas Page

The Use of the Broadsword

PDF

Transcription with images

178 KB

22

David Teague

Page Course Notes

DOC

Interpretation of Thomas Page's work

322 KB

16

Graeme Anderson

Fencing with the European Two-Handed Staff

PDF

Instruction on 2-handed staff, mostly based on Dardi School

4.6 MB

66