The Raymond J. Lord Collection of Historical Combat Treatises and Fencing Manuals

About the Collection

The Raymond J. Lord Collection is a digital archive of historical combat treatises and fencing manuals dating primarily from the Renaissance. These resources are provided free of charge to the public in order to aid both scholars and practitioners in their research.

Within the Collection below you will find a list of currently available items. These are arranged chronologically with author, title and date. Each entry is a link to a PDF document which you may download or view in your browser (depending on your browser configuration). 

You may redistribute items from the Collection as long as they remain unaltered and you do not profit from their redistribution.

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The Collection

	Antonio Manciolino, Opera Nova...De l'armi d'ogni sorte, 1531 (5.62MB, pdf)
	Achille Marozzo, Opera Nova, 1536 (14.5MB, pdf)
	Fabian Von Auerswald, Ringer Kunst: fünff und achtzig..., 1539 (4.83MB, pdf)
	Camillo Agrippa, Trattato di Scientia d'Arme, 1553 (9.03MB, pdf)
	Hans Lecküchner/Lebkommer, Fechtbüch, 1558 (4.99MB, pdf)
	Giacomo di Grassi, Ragione di Adoprar sicuramente l'Arme, 1570 (13.5MB, pdf)
	Giovanni dall'Agocchie, Dell'Arte Di Scrima Libri Tre, 1572 (9.21MB, pdf)
	Henry de St. Didier, Traicte...sur l'Espee Seule, 1573 (6.29MB, pdf)
	Angelo Viggiani, Lo Schermo, 1575 (29.7MB, pdf)
	Henrici a Gunterrodt, De Veris Principiis Artis Dimicatoriae, 1579 (2.06MB, pdf)
	G.A. Lovino, Traite d'Escrime, 1580 (4.14MB, pdf)
	Robert Dudley, Lawes and Ordinances Militarie, 1586 (1.34MB, pdf)
	William Bourne, The Arte of shooting in great Ordnaunce, 1587 (4.14MB, pdf)
	Bertrand de Loque, Discourses of Warre, 1591 (4.06MB, pdf)
	Giacomo di Grassi, His True Arte of Defence, 1594 (7.1MB, pdf)
	Vincentio Saviolo, His Practise, in Two Books, 1595 (11.8MB, pdf)
	George Silver, Paradoxes of Defence, 1599 (5.19MB, pdf)
	Joachim Meyer, Gründtliche Beschreibung...Fechtens, 1600 (37.4MB, pdf)
	William Segar, Honor Military, and Civill, 1602 (16.5MB, pdf)
	Salvator Fabris, Lo Schermo, overo Scienza d'Arme, 1606 (14.7MB, pdf)
	Jakob Sutor, Künstliches Fechtbüch..., 1612 (31.4MB, pdf)
	G.H. Gent, Private Schoole of Defence..., 1614 (4.85MB, pdf)
	Anon., Worke for Cutlers, or, a Merry Dialogue, 1615 (0.87MB, pdf)
	Joseph Swetnam, The Schoole of...Defence, 1617 (7.48MB, pdf)
	Nicoletto Giganti, Escrime nouvelle, 1619 (6.98MB, pdf)
	Francesco Alfieri, L'Arte Di Ben Maneggiare La Spada, 1653 (5.61MB, pdf)
	Giuseppe Morsicato Pallavicini, La Scherma, 1670 (7.37MB, pdf)
	Johannes Georgius Bruchius, Grondige...wapen-konste, 1671 (29.7MB, pdf)
	Nicholaes Petter, Klare...Worstel-Kunst, 1674 (4.07MB, pdf)
	F. A. Marcelli, Regole della Scherma, 1686 (27MB, pdf)
	Le Sieur de Liancour, Le Maitre D'Armes, 1692 (7.4MB, pdf)
	John Godfrey, A Treatise Upon...Defence, 1747 (7.05MB, pdf)

Research

	Dr. Patri Pugliese, Parallels between Fencing and Dancing..., 2005 (5.75MB, pdf)
	Dr. Patri Pugliese, Practice for the Duel, 2007 (19.3MB, pdf)
	Dr. Walter Green, The Masters of Defence ca. 1530 to 1617, 2014 (292KB, pdf)

For questions about text or content, please contact Jeff Lord.