Grappling
Grappling
Fior di Battaglia — The Flower of Battle
Abrazare — the foundation of the art: four guards, sixteen plays, the holds, locks, breaks, and dislocations the whole system runs on.
Folios
01
Opening rubric— Pisani Dossi 4a-t (no Getty text)
prose
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02
Getty 6r— The four guards of grappling
[2][3][4][5]
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03
Getty 6v— The first four plays
[6][7][8][9]
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04
Getty 7r— Fifth to eighth plays
[10][11][12][13]
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05
Getty 7v— Ninth to twelfth plays
[14][15][16][17]
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06
Getty 8r— Thirteenth to sixteenth plays
[18][19][20][21]
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Folio summary — Grappling
| Getty folio | Plates | Content | Getty images | Verse witnesses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (none) | [1] | Opening rubric | — | Pisani Dossi 4a-t |
| 6r | [2]–[5] | The four guards | — | PD 4a · Paris 38v |
| 6v | [6]–[9] | First–fourth plays | — | PD 4b · Paris 39r–v |
| 7r | [10]–[13] | Fifth–eighth plays | [11], [12] | PD 4b–5a · Paris 40r–v |
| 7v | [14]–[17] | Ninth–twelfth plays | — | PD 5a · Paris 41r–v |
| 8r | [18]–[21] | Thirteenth–sixteenth plays | [21] | PD 5b · Paris 42r–v |
Five Getty folios, 21 plates, 22 illustrations. Morgan is absent throughout. The pattern that emerges page by page: the Getty prose carries the system (the entries, the counters, the conditions, the reasoning), while the verse witnesses carry the outcome (the boast, the image, the threat) — and twice, at [3] and [11], the two families do not describe the same action at all.