Mounted figures
Base text: the Rome version (Cod.44.A.8, 1452), folios 07v-08r, where the twenty-six figures alternate red and black entries. The "figures" (figuren) are not verse: they are compressed command-phrases — a battlefield digest of the mounted Zettel ([D 2]-[D 8]) — and several manuscripts lay them out as diagrams. Witnesses: Gotha (1448), Rome (1452), Glasgow Ⅰ (1508), Krakow (1535-40), Augsburg Ⅱ (1553); the Nuremberg Hausbuch (MS 3227a) carries only four of them. Cross-references [D n] point at Mounted and Dismounted Dueling translation.
Figures of the mounted fencing (Figuren des Roßfechtens).
"Your spear ready" etc. — "If it should fall" etc. — "Hew in, do not twitch" etc.
Gloss: move up to him on the left; grip his right — so you catch him without fighting.
Note: the row quotes the opening catch-words of the mounted Zettel ([D 2]) and appends the earliest gloss in the section: the left-side approach into the arm-catch. The figures that follow unpack exactly this material.
Turn about with the horse; draw his right hand with your left. — cf. [D 2]
(One of the four figures in MS 3227a.)
With sweeping: [seize] saddle-girth, or take his weapon. — cf. [D 3] "whoever sweeps…"
Set on high; swing; pass through; or break the sword. — cf. [D 2]
(One of the four figures in MS 3227a.)
Grip the strong with both hands. — cf. [D 13]
Here begin upon the man: seek the Taschenhau (pouch-hew). — cf. [D 3]
Whoever wards the thrust — catch his right hand in your left. — cf. [D 2]
Seek the openings: arm, leather, gauntlet, under the eyes. — cf. [D 11]
Press fast; shove from the bridle; seek his knife. — cf. [D 3] "catch the bridle…"
(One of the four figures in MS 3227a.)
With empty hand learn two strokes against every weapon. — cf. [D 3]
The sheep-grip wards all grips of wrestling under the eyes. — cf. [D 4]
(One of the four figures in MS 3227a.)
A second time turn about, as the horses rush past. — cf. [D 6] (3227a variant)
In the near, catch the hand; turn his face to where the nape is. — cf. [D 8]
Catch the weapon at width, in the riding-against. — cf. [D 5]
If you chase on the left, fall upon the sword's pommel; shove under the eyes. — cf. [D 5]
Chase to the right hand with its arts. — cf. [D 6]
Set the point against the face. — cf. [D 9]
The strong in the onset — order yourself rightly therein. — cf. [D 3]
This is the spear's course, which meets the other under the eyes. — cf. [D 2]
The unnamed grip: seize, or fell him. — cf. [D 7]
If one chases you on both sides, turn about left as he comes right. — cf. [D 6]
The knife-taking — and remember to keep [it]. — cf. [D 7]
If you would grapple, you should not leave off riding alongside;
drive the sun-showing (sunnen tzaigen), the left sleeve, if you would bow him.
Whoever aims that at you, over-grip him — he will be shamed;
press arm to head: that grip often robs the saddle.
Note: these are the mounted-wrestling couplets of the Zettel itself ([D 8]) written out again after the figures — the Rome closes the figure-list by returning to the verse it digests.
What the figures are
Twenty-six imperative taglines, each compressing one action of the mounted Zettel to a phrase a rider can hold in mind. Several codices (Rome among them) alternate them red/black and number them ordinally; others draw them as roundels. Every figure maps onto verse material in [D 2]-[D 8] (and two point forward to the shortened sword, [D 9]); the mapping is given per row above and analyzed in Technical grouping §8-9. That MS 3227a carries only four ([F 4], [F 6], [F 13], [F 15]) is one of the strongest hints that the figure-list grew as a separate mnemonic layer over the fifteenth century — see Manuscript comparison.