MSU's Charles and Ruth Schmitter Fencing Collection includes nearly 1000 volumes, published since 1500, in more than a dozen languages. Several representative titles are reproduced below.
Titles in this Collection:
- A treatise upon the useful science of defence : connecting the small and back-sword, and shewing the affinity between them : likewise endeavouring to weed the art of those superfluous, unmeaning practices which over-run it ... : with some observations upo
- Albrecht Dürers Fechtbuch / von Friedrich D?rnh?ffer
- The art of fencing : or, the use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat