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Title

Sienza e pratica d'arme / di Salvator Fabris ; divisa in dui libri: nel primo si dismotra le suttilita, sopra le quali é fondata la professione. Nel secondo, alcune raggioni, non piu da altri intese. Con la tauola, di quanto nell'opera i contiene.

Author

Fabris, Salvator, 1544-1618

Publication

Copenhaven : Henrico Waltkirch, anno Domini 1606.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Halbeeck, Jan van, -1630
• Andreae, Nicolaus, approximately 1550-approximately 1606
• Valesio, Francesco, approximately 1560-
• Bost, I. de
• Waldkirch, Henrich, active 1598-1629
• Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway, 1577-1648

Description

[8], 256, [4] pages : illustrations, portraits, coat of arms; 34 cm (fol.)

Alternative Title

• Scienza e pratica d'arme
• De lo schermo, ouero Scienza d'arme
• De lo schermo, overo Scienza d'arme
• Dello schermo, ovvero Scienza d'arme

Subjects

• Fencing in art > Early works to 1800
• Swordplay > Early works to 1800
• Fencing > Early works to 1800

Note

• Letterpress title page (transcribed above): title information and name of author in letterpress within engraved border incorporating imprint. Not present in all copies.
• Errors in spelling in letterpress title: "Sienza" for Scienza; "dismotra" for dimostra.
• Spencer Coll. copy: On letterpress title page, the word "dismotra" is altered in ink to read "dismostra."
• Added engraved title page employing same border as letterpress title page; engraved title information reads: De lo schermo, ouero Scienza d'arme / di Salvator Fabris, capo dell'Ordine dei sette cori. Title is engraved in uppercase and appears as "DE LO SCHERMO OVERO SCIENZA D'ARME."
• Colophon: "Si fini distampare li discorsi, adi 25 settembre MDCVI, nella citta di Coponaghen, metropoli del' regno di Dania, appresso Hendrich Walchirchen."
• Signatures: pi1 A-Y⁶ chi1. Leaf chi1 verso blank.
• Illustrations: 3 full-page etchings by Jan van Halbeeck (title page border, added title page and (on verso) arms of Christian IV, king of Denmark and Norway, the dedicatee); 2 portraits of Christian IV and the author (the latter on half title page for book 2; dated 1605), engraved by Nicolaus Andrea; and 191 half-page etchings depicting naked fencers (the first unnumbered, the others numbered 1-190). Of the half-page etchings, 74 are signed or initialed by Halbeeck; 59 bear the monogram FV (Francesco Valesio; see Nagler, G.K. Die Monogrammisten, v. 2, page 908); 3 are signed or initialed I. de. Bost. (i.d.b.); and 55 are unsigned.
• Copy in *KB+ 1606: Many illustrations hand-colored.
• Woodcut and ornamental head- and tailpieces and initials.
• Book 2 has half title: Libro secondo : doue si dismostra alcune regule, con lequali si potra andare a ferire il nimico subito posto mane, alla spada senza fermarsi ne aspettare altro tempo; raggioni non più trattate da niun proffessore, nè scrittore.
• Errata on recto of last leaf.

Indexed In (note)

• Bibliotheca danica
• Cockle, M.J.D. Bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of contemporary foreign works
• Thimm, C.A. Complete bibliography of fencing and duelling
• Gelli, J. Bibliografia generale della scherma

Provenance (note)

• With label of Giorgio Enrico Levi, and stamp: Corpo di stato maggiore. Biblioteca.
• Manuscript marginalia in an early hand, in Italian.

Binding (note)

• 20th century Italian marbled calf, gilt, in 17th century Italian style. Binder's title: Fabris. Lo schermo.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Danish 1606

OCLC

42893624

Author

Fabris, Salvator, 1544-1618, author.

Title

Sienza e pratica d'arme / di Salvator Fabris ; divisa in dui libri: nel primo si dismotra le suttilita, sopra le quali é fondata la professione. Nel secondo, alcune raggioni, non piu da altri intese. Con la tauola, di quanto nell'opera i contiene.

Publisher

Copenhaven : Henrico Waltkirch, anno Domini 1606.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Bibliotheca danica, v. 1, column 1120

Cockle, M.J.D. Bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of contemporary foreign works, entry 754

Thimm, C.A. Complete bibliography of fencing and duelling, page 97

Gelli, J. Bibliografia generale della scherma, pages 75-77

Local Note

Copy in *KB+ 1606: A second copy of this half title, altered with a mounted slip reading "primo," is bound before preliminary page 7.

Copy in *KB+ 1606 incomplete: Title page and engraved title page wanting.

Provenance

Copy in *KB+ 1606: With label of Giorgio Enrico Levi, and stamp: Corpo di stato maggiore. Biblioteca.

Copy in Spencer Coll. Danish 1606: Manuscript marginalia in an early hand, in Italian.

Binding

Copy in Spencer Coll. Danish 1606: 20th century Italian marbled calf, gilt, in 17th century Italian style. Binder's title: Fabris. Lo schermo. NN

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Place of Publication

Denmark Copenhagen.

Added Author

Halbeeck, Jan van, -1630, illustrator, etcher.

Andreae, Nicolaus, approximately 1550-approximately 1606, engraver.

Valesio, Francesco, approximately 1560- etcher.

Bost, I. de, etcher.

Waldkirch, Henrich, active 1598-1629, publisher, printer.

Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway, 1577-1648, dedicatee.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Danish 1606

*KB+ 1606 (Fabris, S. Sienza [sic] e pratica d'arme)