Over 650 original combat treatises (1300-1945) linked from our database

The source database on the Schola Forum is a massive compilation of all the known combat treatises that are to be found for free online, in all languages and formats.  It has been created with the help of forum members and the list is constantly being updated and growing.  Please help us continue in making this the most complete database of HEMA sources on the internet.

Sources hosted directly by Schola Gladiatoria:

• English translation and images of Getty version of Fiore dei Liberi's Fior di Battaglia, with translation by Durban & Easton, PDF and images arranged by Tracy Mellow of Iron Gate Swordfighting.

• The Fiore dei Liberi page - by Matt Easton

• The Victorian martial arts page - by Matt Easton

• Albrecht Dürer's 'fechtbuch' of 1512 - Friederich Dörnhöffer's 1910 book (in German) and  facsimile of the original held in Breslau/Wroclaw in Poland - Courtesy of James Roberts of MACS. 

James Roberts' foreword essay

Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4 (facsimile with armed combat)  Part 5 (facsimile with wrestling)

• Toxophilus. Roger Ascham. 1545. - (reprint of 1895)

• Rules & Regulations for the Sword Exercise of Cavalry.  J G Le Marchant. London. 1796.

• Infantry Sword Exercise.  Henry Charles Angelo. London. 1845.

• A Complete System of Bayonet Exercise. Sir Richard Francis Burton. London, 1853. 

• Lessons in Sabre, Singlestick, Sabre and Bayonet. John Musgrave Waite. London. 1880.

• Bayonet-fencing and sword practice, Captain Alfred Hutton. London. 1882.

• Fixed Bayonets, Captain Alfred Hutton. London. 1890.  - Bayonet fencing introduction by Nigel Plum.

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• The Great Triangulation by Matt Easton
• What is a longsword? by Matt Easton
• What is a rondel dagger? by Matt Easton
• What is a pollaxe? by Matt Easton

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