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The '''Cgm 558''', or ''Codex germanicus monacensis'', is a convolution of two 15th-century manuscripts with a total of 176 folia, bound together in the 16th century. It is  kept at the Bavarian library in [[Munich]]. The first manuscript 
contains two chronicles composed by one Otmar Gassow in 1462, one concerned with [[Zürich]], the other with the [[Toggenburg (Switzerland)|Toggenburg]] (see [[Old Zürich War]]), and a copy of the 13th century ''[[Schwabenspiegel]]'' law codex.

==Contents==

*first part, by Otmar Gossow 1462, foll. 1&ndash;100.
**1r&ndash;94v: ''Schwabenspiegel''
**94v&ndash;100r ''Landfried König Rudolf'', 1287 (biography of [[Rudolph I of Germany]])
*second part, in two 15th century hands, foll. 101&ndash;160.
**scribe A,  101&ndash;124
***101r&ndash;109v ''Chronik von Zürich'', Eberhard von Müllner (chronicle of Zürich)
***109v&ndash;113r ''Chronistische Notizen zur Schweizergeschichte'', 1385&ndash;1446, appendix to the Zürich chronicle)
***113r&ndash;124r	Kleine Toggenburger Chronik, 1314 (Petite Chronique de Toggenburg)
**scribe B (Hugo Wittenwiler), 125&ndash;150
***125r&ndash;136v	''Fechtbuch'' (combat treatise)
***136r&ndash;141r	''Lehre von den Zeichen des Hirsches'' (on hunting the stag)
***141r&ndash;150r	''Beizbüchlein'' (hunting manual, incomplete)
**scribe A, 151&ndash;160
***151r-153r ''Planetenverse'' (astrological verses)
***153r-160r ''Monatsregimen, mit verworfenen Tagen'' (calendars)

==The Fechtbuch==
The second part contains a short [[Fechtbuch]] on 12 pages,  penned  in Hand B, attributed on fol. 141r to ''per manus Hugonis dicti Wittenwiller'' (cf. [[Heinrich Wittenwiler]] who may be of the same family), together with an illegible date. The text's language is [[High Alemannic German|High Alemannic]], and it was probably written in or near the [[Toggenburg]].

The treatise consists of 122 short paragraphs, numbered by de Grenier (2004), treating the [[long sword]] (1&ndash;50), pole weapons ([[halberd]], [[spear]] 51&ndash;55), combat on horseback with sword or spear (56&ndash;64), the [[baselard]] (65&ndash;80), [[dagger]] on foot and on horseback (81&ndash;85), knife (86&ndash;90), unarmed defense against an attack with a baselard, a dagger or a knife (91&ndash;98) and [[ringen|grappling]] (99&ndash;122).

Paragraphs numbered 44 consists of three rhymed couplets, the last one reading
:''Iunk man lern maister ler / hab got lib und frowen er''
:"Young man, learn masters' lore, love God and honour noble women"
This is reminiscent of one of [[Johannes Liechtenauer]]'s verses, cf.
:''Jung Ritter lere / got lip haben frawen io ere''
:"Young knight, learn to love god, and to honour noble women"

The long sword terminology seems also loosely influenced by the [[German school of swordsmanship|German school]], but it has some terms that are not encountered elsewhere (''gassen how'', ''schlims how'' (two strikes), ''drig angel'' "triangle" (a stance or stepping action)).

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050515024026/http://ardamhe.free.fr/biblio/cgm558-transcription-ARDAMHE.pdf transcription] by Didier de Grenier (2004, [[PDF]] file)
**[http://schwertfechten.ch/html/cgm558/ transcription (with glossary)] 

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[[Category:History of hunting]]