Le Jeu de la Hache
Le Jeu de la Hache is a French manual on combat with the poleaxe dating to c. 1400.
The manuscript measures and consists of ten vellum leaves. The text consists of a prologue, a main section describing combat between two right-handed opponents, followed by a shorter part discussing how a right-handed knight should deal with a left-handed opponent.
The manuscript is recorded to have been part of the library of Francis I in 1544 as it was moved to Fontainebleau.