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• 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 (Word .doc)

Part 1 (pdf)

Part 2 (pdf) 

Part 3 (pdf) 

Part 4 (facsimile with armed combat) (pdf) 

Part 5 (facsimile with wrestling) (pdf)

• Roger Ascham's 'Toxophilus' of 1545 - (reprint of 1895) A seminal treatise on longbows and archery. The earliest know English martial treatise! (pdf)
• Girard Thibault's 'Academie de l'Espee' of 1628 - plates from this beautiful French rapier treatise.
• Domenico Angelo's l'Ecole d'Armes of 1763 - most of the plates (there are 47 total in the original) from one of the most beautiful smallsword treatises.  French text on plates.

• Bayonet fencing introduction by Nigel Plum.
• Richard F. Burton's 'A Complete System of Bayonet Exercise', London, 1853. 
• Captain Alfred Hutton's Bayonet-fencing and sword practice, 1882.
• Captain Alfred Hutton's Fixed Bayonets, 1890.

(These bayonet sources courtesy of Nigel Plum of Schola Gladiatoria)

• 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