DiGrassi, His True Arte of Defence
Showing how a man without other Teacher or Master may safelie handle all
sortes of Weapons.
(Names in square brackets denote the person who has voluteered to transcribe
that portion of the work. If an anchor has a name after it, it is in progress.
If an anchor has no name after it, it is complete)
- The Preface
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- The Epistle Dedicatorie
- The Authors
Epistle unto divers Noble men and Gentle-men
- The
Author, to the Reader
- An Advertisement
to the curteous reader
- The First Part
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-
The true Art of Defence
- Of
the Sword
- Of
Paces; Of wardes
- The
Single Rapier (pg E-F)
- The
Rapier and Dagger (pg F-H)
- The
Rapier and Cloake (pg H-I)
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Of the Sworde and Buckler (pg I-K)
- Of the
Sworde & Target, called the Square Target (pg K-L)
- Of the
Sword and rounde Target (pg L-M)
- Of the Case of Rapyers (pg M-O)
- Of the Two hand Sword (pg O-P)
- Of
the weapons of the Staffe, namely, the Bill, the Partisan, the Holbert, and
the Javelin (pg P-Q)
- Of
the Pike (pg Q-R)
- The Second Part
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-
Falsing of Blowes or Thrusts (pg Aa)
- Deceits
or Falsings of the Single Sword, or Single Rapier (pg Aa)
- Of Sword
and dagger, or Rapier and dagger (pg Aa-Bb)
- Of Sword
and Cloke, or Rapier and Cloke (pg Bb)
- Of Sword
and buckler, Square Target and round Target (Bb-Cc)
- Of the falses of the two Swordes: or Rapiers (pg Cc-Dd) [Patrick]
- The Defenses of the two Hand sword. (pg Dd)
- Of the Partesan, Bil, Javelin and Holberde (pg Dd-Ee) [Tom]
- How
a man by privat practise may obtain strength of bodie therby (pg Ee-Finis)
This version is incomplete. A complete version (produced by OCR then
edited by a human) can be found at Don
Danulf's page. I am also aware of one abridged/rewritten and heavily
glossed version, at kismeta.com.
This is an electronic version copied from a facsimilie of the original
text. Work undertaken during August/September 1996 (AS 31). Contributors
are Patrick Swanson (Elric Dracwin) and Tom Hudson (Giovan Donato). Jennie
Radovsky (Kerdych Goch) scanned the images during October 1997 (AS 32).