Dagger
The largest section: the five guards, the dagger’s blows, and the Nine Remedy Masters with their scholars and counters — including the three locks.
Folios
Folio summary — Dagger
| Getty folio | Plates | Content | Getty images | Verse witnesses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9r | [1]–[6] | The five guards of the dagger | [2]–[6] | — |
| 9v | [7]–[12] | The dagger speaks; the blows | [9] | — |
| 10r | [13]–[16] | The four emblem Masters | [13]–[16] | PD 6a · Paris 21r |
| 10v | [17]–[20] | First Master; the middle lock | — | PD 6a–6b · Paris 21v–24r |
| 11r | [21]–[24] | Cover, counter, throw, beat-aside | [23], [24] | PD 6b · Paris 24v |
| 11v | [25], [29], [30], [31] | Counters to the First Master | [25] | PD 6b–8a · Paris 25r–44r |
| PD 8a | [26], [27], [28] | Counter-counters (no Getty text) | — | PD 8a · Paris 43v |
| 12r | [32]–[35] | Greater Strength; the shoulder break | — | PD 6b–7a · Paris 23r–25v |
| 12v | [36]–[39] | Dagger taking at the elbow | [39] | PD 7a–7b · Paris 23r–23v |
| 13r | [40]–[43] | Second Master; the four things | [40] | PD 7b |
| 13v | [44], [47], [48], [49] | Third Master; the backhand plays | — | PD 7b–8b · Paris 22r–23v |
| PD 8b | [45], [46], [50] | The backhand begins (no Getty text) | — | PD 8b |
| 14r | [51], [52], [54], [55] | The lower lock and strong key | — | PD 9a · Paris 31r–31v |
| PD 9a | [53] | Dagger over the left arm (no Getty text) | — | PD 9a |
| 14v | [56], [58], [59], [61] | Fourth Master; the upper locks | [58] | PD 9b · Paris 32r–32v |
| PD 9b | [57], [60] | Scholar's disarm; a throw (no Getty text) | — | PD 9b |
| 38r | [62], [63], [65], [66] | Disarms; the counter; Fifth Master | [65] | PD 10a · Paris 33r–33v |
| PD 10a | [64] | Dagger into the thigh (no Getty text) | — | PD 10a |
| 38v | [67], [69], [71], [72] | Fifth Master's plays; the lance | — | PD 10a–16b · Paris 34r–34v |
| PD 16b | [68] | Freeing from a lance (no Getty text) | — | PD 16b |
| PD 10b | [70] | Strike to fist or elbow (no Getty text) | — | PD 10b · Paris 34r |
| 15r | [73]–[76] | The cover that feeds both locks | — | PD 10b–11a · Paris 35r–35v |
| 15v | [77]–[80] | Crossed arms; counter to close play | [80] | PD 11a · Paris 36r |
| 16r | [81]–[84] | Sixth Master: dagger against dagger | [82], [83] | PD 11a–11b · Paris 36v |
| 16v | [85]–[88] | Sixth Master's scholars; his counter | [86] | PD 11a–12a |
| PD 11b | [89] | Counter with the left hand (no Getty text) | — | PD 11b |
| 17r | [90], [91], [92], [94] | Seventh and Eighth Masters | [92], [94] | PD 11b · Paris 36v–37r |
| PD 12a | [95], [96] | The counter completed; the crossing (no Getty text) | — | PD 12a · Paris 37r |
| 17v | [97], [98], [100], [101] | Into the strong key; Ninth Master | [97], [98] | PD 12a |
| 18r | [102]–[105] | The Ninth Master's scholars | [105] | PD 12a–12b · Paris 37v–38r |
| 18v | [106]–[110] | The last scholars; the final counter | [107], [108], [109] | PD 12b · Paris 43r |
Twenty-two Getty folios and nine Pisani Dossi pages, 108 plates, nine Remedy Masters — the book's longest section, and the only one that has no Morgan witness at any point. ([93] has an illustration and no text in any witness; [99] has neither. Neither is counted above.) The pattern set out in the Grappling folios holds here as well: the Getty prose carries the system — the routing, the addresses, the counters, the reasoning — and the verse witnesses carry the outcome, the boast and the picture. But the dagger tests that division harder than grappling does, and three times it fails outright: only the verse says the Sixth Master fights dagger against dagger ([81]); only the verse names the elbow as the Fifth Master's target ([66]); and only the verse states the lock-routing as a rule rather than a case ([96]). What holds without a single exception is the lock system itself — three locks at fixed addresses, and the strong key identified as the lower lock at [54], then glossed identically nine times afterward across all three languages, the one Latin line that could have contradicted it being also the one line too garbled to read ([96]). Against nine Masters the section ends up offering one universal answer — push the elbow — and it closes on that at [110]: in prose, with no picture, no couplet, and no Latin.