The Fior di Battaglia of Fiore de’i Liberi (Facsimile)
Fior di Battaglia ("The Flower of Battle", MS Ludwig ⅩⅤ 13) is an Italian fencing manual authored by Fiore de’i Liberi and dedicated to Niccolò III, Marquis d’Este. it is parchment in a tidy humanist script; the illustrations are inked drawings with gold leafing on the crowns and garters.
This facsimile is printed on heavy paper to simulate the weight and handling of the original parchment pages, and bound according to the current quire structure, including pages that were removed and later glued back in (sometimes in the wrong place!). It is bound in maroon kidskin modeled after the bindings used in the Estense Library where it once resided, with 7mm boards and blind tooling based on the current cover design.
Fior di Battaglia ("The Flower of Battle", MS Ludwig ⅩⅤ 13) is an Italian fencing manual authored by Fiore de’i Liberi and dedicated to Niccolò III, Marquis d’Este. it is parchment in a tidy humanist script; the illustrations are inked drawings with gold leafing on the crowns and garters.
This facsimile is printed on heavy paper to simulate the weight and handling of the original parchment pages, and bound according to the current quire structure, including pages that were removed and later glued back in (sometimes in the wrong place!). It is bound in maroon kidskin modeled after the bindings used in the Estense Library where it once resided, with 7mm boards and blind tooling based on the current cover design.
Fior di Battaglia ("The Flower of Battle", MS Ludwig ⅩⅤ 13) is an Italian fencing manual authored by Fiore de’i Liberi and dedicated to Niccolò III, Marquis d’Este. it is parchment in a tidy humanist script; the illustrations are inked drawings with gold leafing on the crowns and garters.
This facsimile is printed on heavy paper to simulate the weight and handling of the original parchment pages, and bound according to the current quire structure, including pages that were removed and later glued back in (sometimes in the wrong place!). It is bound in maroon kidskin modeled after the bindings used in the Estense Library where it once resided, with 7mm boards and blind tooling based on the current cover design.