New Fiore Manuscript Discovered in Paris

[Callum]

Cross-Post to Sword Forum International:

http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?t=92013

According to Colin the text is also in Latin as opposed to Italian.

You can download a scanned copy from one of the links on the Sword Forum International discussion and hopefully a much better copy will become available soon.

Unlike the other Fiore manuscripts the plates are in colour and are works of art in themselves.

For those of us who study Fiore this is gold

[Chevalier]

It took a few moments to find the mounted stuff, but WOW!

[conal]

Nice. Lovely to see that treasure still hides out in the open too.

In the brief glance I've had.

I particularly like the picture of the elephant with the howdah.

Thanks for that.

[Colin]

Yes, it truly is a beautiful manuscript. That's number four found. Potentially one more to find (We know that five manuscripts existed at one point in time.) Exciting that it has been found.

[Colin]

The elephant is representative of the cardinal virtue Fortitude. Elephants are representated by a castle on their back. It's a consistent theme of the Middle Ages; if an animal has a castle on his back, it's an elephant, even if you don't think it looks like one (I had to point this out to an art historian once )

All of the discovered Flower of Battles' manuscripts have the four animals (lynx, tiger, elephant and lion). You need to read up their definitions of the animals rather than use modern knowledge as just one facet of their meanings.

[stephan]

awesome