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{{Short description|1452 martial arts manual by Peter von Danzig}}
[[Image:MS 44 A 8 1v.jpg|thumb|250px|fol. 1v of the MS, depicting two fencers in basic wards.]]

'''Cod. 44 A 8''' also known as '''MS 1449''', Bibliotheca dell'Academica Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana,  is a [[Fechtbuch]] compiled by '''Peter von Danzig''' in 1452. Danzig was a 15th-century [[German people|German]] fencing master. He was counted among the 17 members of the "society of [[Johannes Liechtenauer]]".

The book reports teachings of [[Johannes Liechtenauer]], [[Andres Lignitzer]], [[Martin Hundfeld]] and [[Ott Jud]], as well as original material by Peter von Danzig.

Andres Lignitzer (Andreas Liegnitzer, Andrew of [[Liegnitz]]) was a late 14th- or early 15th-century German fencing master. His teachings are preserved by the mid-15th-century masters Peter von Danzig and [[Paulus Kal]]. Paulus Kal names him together with his brother Jacob as being members of the "[[Liechtenauer society]]". He may be identical with  ''Andres Jud'' ("Andres the [[Jew]]") named in [[3227a]].

An English translation of the treatise was published by Tobler (2010).

==See also==
* [[Historical European Martial Arts]]
* [[German school of swordsmanship]]

==Literature==
* Christian Henry Tobler, ''In Saint George's Name: An Anthology of Medieval German Fighting Arts''  (2010), {{ISBN|978-0-9825911-1-6}}

==External links==
*https://web.archive.org/web/20060913000000/http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Cod._44_A_8
*http://www.schielhau.org/von.danzig.html

[[Category:1452 books]]
[[Category:Combat treatises]]
[[Category:15th-century illuminated manuscripts]]

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