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thrust against a '' Mordhau '' in Armoured Longsword combat.]] The Codex Wallerstein ( Augsburg University library I.6.4.2) is a 15th Century Fechtbuch . The title Vom Baumans Fechtbuch appears on the first page, together with the date 1549 . The Codex came in the possession of Paulus Hector Mair in 1556 . It consists of 221 pages, illustrating techniques of fighting with the Longsword , Dussack and Dagger , Armored and unarmored, Stechschild , as well a system of Grappling . The manuscript is a convolution of three parts, clearly separable by three different styles of illustration. The part A treats longsword, dagger and messer. The part B is inserted in two parts, interrupting the first part, treating grappling. The part C treats longsword, armoured combat, stechschild and grappling. The swords depicted are of a tapering Spadone style. The fighting style is somewhat different from that in the other fechtbücher in Liechtenauer 's tradition. Especially the longsword techniques involve a lot of lever work and gripping the blade, reminiscent of Hans Talhoffer , probably executable by most fencers only with blunts, or in armoured combat. Part A is considered a source for the fechtbuch of Albrecht Dürer of 1512 . A note on fol. 56v indicates that part B post-dates part A. Part C is probably the oldest, dating to the mid-15th century, the illustrations possibly by a professional draftsman of playing-cards, while parts A and B may date to the 1470s, possibly by one Michael Baumann, listed as a Mercenary by profession in the tax registers of Augsburg between 1471 and 1495. The present confused sequence of the pages is the result of a binding in the 16th century. CONTENTS
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