In December 2022, I presented this paper at a conference in Brescia.
The journal that is publishing the proceedings is taking forever to actually get the issue out, but I recently found out that I'm allowed to release pre-print copies, so here it is! An appendix includes my complete Meyer Census.
Holy crap, this one is beautiful.
I paid out the nose for this one, but I now have every painted Thibault print I can locate for sale, apart from a few that I passed by because they're duplicates and not better than what I have. Now we can plan the scanning.
We now have 30 Thibault prints to digitize for Wiktenauer!
If you or someone you know owns a painted Thibault page, HEMA Bookshelf has offered to pay for shipping to Massachusetts and back to get it digitized with the rest (and also provide advice about how to package it so that it travels safely).
A Meyer coloring book! This book includes all 62 prints from Joachim Meyer's 1570 treatise. We took Hans Christoff Stimmer's woodblocks, cleaned them up, and printed them at 150% of their original size. Whether you want to color them or simply appreciate their details in B&W, this book is for you!
I wrote this little eulogy for Mike on my Wiktenauer account a few days ago. Hope to see and reminisce with a lot of you at the memorial service this weekend.
Are you ready to buy the biggest book you've ever seen?
This project has 2 goals:
1. To publish Thibaultβs illustrations in as close to their original size as possible β to do this, we need πππ π₯π§π-π€π§πππ§π¨.
2. To fund the digitization of complete, painted illustrations to release on Wiktenauer.
_GrΓΌndtliche Beschreibung, der freyen Ritterlichen unnd Adelichen kunst des Fechtens_ is a fencing treatise written by Joachim Meyer, illustrated by Hans Christoph Stimmer, and published in Strasbourg...
A Meyer coloring book! This book includes all 62 illustrations from Joachim Meyer's 1570 treatise. We took Hans Christoff Stimmer's original woodblock prints and cleaned them up and enlarged them to 1...
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After four months of tweaking and poking and rewriting and reconsidering, I've completed another revision of my Zettel translation.
It's starting to sound pretty good now.
I've also expanded the footnotes in a lot of places, including adding more variant readings and more terminology discussion.
At SCSF, I brought 26 original ca. 1630 painted prints from Girard Thibault's treatise to display alongside Brian Stokes' first edition (on the red velvet throne to the right).
The most up-to-date version of the translation can always be found on Wiktenauer, but that link is where the most recent PDF extract lives.