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Fencing Digital Collection

Over the years the Special Collections Division in the MSU Libraries has been enriched by the generosity of friends and donors. One of the finest examples of this generosity is the Charles and Ruth Schmitter Fencing Collection, the gift of Charles Schmitter, MSU's retired fencing coach and professor emeritus of health and physical education, and Ruth, his wife. Now numbering almost 600 titles in thirteen languages spanning four centuries, this unique research collection rivals any in the country in size, quality, and breadth.

For more information on the collection, see the MSU Libraries' Special Collection Fencing Collection.

Items in the Fencing collection:

Thumbnail Image	Title	Publisher	Author	Call Number	Description	Available Format(s)
	Title: 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	Publisher: London: printed for the author by T. Gardner, 1747.	Author(s): Godfrey, John		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: Albrecht Dürers Fechtbuch / von Friedrich Dörnhöffer	Publisher: Wien: F. Tempsky ; Leipzig : G. Freytag, 1910.	Author(s): D¸rer, Albrecht		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf
	Title: The art of fencing : or, the use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat	Publisher: Dublin : printed by James Hoey, 1734.	Author(s): Labat		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): pdf