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Title

De ludo schacchorum seu de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium ... etc.

Authors

• Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D
• Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, 1351-1402
• Honorius, of Autun, ca. 1080-ca. 1156
• Pollastre, Cassius Pauli
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
• Bono, da Lucca, d. 1279 or 80
• Ludovico, da Fabriano
• Albanzani, Donato, ca. 1326-ca. 1411
• Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Gennay, Franciscus, compiler
• Ludwig, Peter, 1925-1996, former owner
• Ludwig, Irene, former owner
• Pietro, da Moglio, recipient
• Petrarca, Gerardo, recipient
• Capelli, Pasquino, recipient
• Boniface IX, Pope, ca. 1355-1404, recipient
• J. Paul Getty Museum, former owner

Call number

LJS 267
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948617063503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/791456279
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs267.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1502734 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3251fk8k http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4861706

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with a few poems in Italian (f. 106r-108v)

Origin

Date

1409

Place

Italy

Summary

Compilation, mostly in Latin, of religious, literary, historical, and natural-historical works, including classical and contemporary selections, as well as letters by humanist writers Francesco Petrarca and Donatus Albanzani. Over a quarter of the manuscript is devoted to the De ludo scachorum of Jacobus de Cessolis, a collection of sermons about the proper relationships between a king and various classes of subjects, compared to the rules of chess (f. 1r-56r). Other moderately substantial texts include descriptions of various geographic regions from Honorius of Autun's De imagine mundi (f. 61r-71r); a brief history of the Roman civil wars (f. 71v-92r); and the Computus of Bono da Lucca, which deals with the calendar, lunar cycles, and calculations for determining the date of Easter (f. 109r-124v). The manuscript is a palimpsest, with the lower text from the 14th century, probably legal.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from closing rubric for predominant work (f. 56r).
   
• 4. f.71v-92r: Cronica gestorum a Cesare et Pompeio.
   
• 5. f.92v-94v: De nominibus dignitatum et officiorum.
   
• 6. f.95r-103r: [Letter to Boniface IX] / Cassius Pauli Pollastre de civitate Narniense.
   
• 7. f.103v-104v: [Correspondence between Giangaleazzo Visconti and Bologna, 1390]
   
• 8. f. 104v: Gregorius in moralibus vel super Ezechiele.
   
• 3. f.61r-71r: Ymago mundi / Ysidorus [misattributed; Honorius of Autun]
   
• 10. f.106r-107v: Si tosto come aven che llarcho scocchi ... [Rime, 87 / Francesco Petrarca]
   
• 11. f.106v: Quando dal proprio sito si rimove ... [Rime, 41 / Francesco Petrarca]
   
• 12. f.106v: El tempo vago e prati novelli ... [unattributed sonnet]
   
• 13. f.107r-108v: Pulchre orationes beate Marie Virginis [Rime, 366 / Francesco Petrarca]
   
• 14. f.108v: De virtutibus et gratiis [Prayer, Initia carminum ac versum medii aevi..., 2058]
   
• 15. f.109r-124v: Computus / editus a magistro Bono [da Lucca]
   
• 16. f.125r-130r: Tragedia quedam de casu Cesene / composita per ser Colutium de Stignano [misattributed; Ludovico Romani da Fabriano]
   
• 17. f.130v-138v: Magistro Donato Cassintinensi gramatice preceptori, de consolatione filii sui defuncti / Petracca [Epistolae senile, X.4]
   
• 18. f.138v-145v: Fratri Gerardo Petracco, germano suo monacho Carthusiensi, exortans ipsum in vera religione / Petracca [Epistolae familiares, X.3]
   
• 19. f.146r-151r: [Excerpts from the Etymologiae / Isidore of Seville]
   
• 20. f.151r-153v: Sermo / Donati Cassitinensis quem recitavit publica in plebe [Donato Albanzani]
   
• 21. f.153v-156r: [Letter to Pasquino Capelli / Giangaleazzo Visconti]
   
• 22. f.156r-156v: [Letter to the chancellor of Florence] / Donatus Cassintinensis [Donato Albanzani]
   
• 23. f.156v-157r: [Letter to Pietro da Moglio] / Idem Donatus [Donato Albanzani]
   
• 24. f.157v: [Letter to Antonio, chancellor of Perugia] / Idem Donatus.
   
• 25. f.157v-158r: Epistola Pilati ad Tyberium.
   
• 25. f.158r-158v: Suprascriptus Donatus universitati studii Florentini, respondens electioni sibi transmisse, ut legert gramaticam, rethoricam, et poetas / [Donato Albanzani]
   
• 26. f.159r-168v: Successus Medee querentis de deceptione Iasonis.
   
• 27. f.169r-171v: De verborum copia [Alphabetical list of aphorisms, Initia carminum latinorum saeculo undecimo antiquiorum, 39]
   
• 28. f.173r-174r: [Votive prayers for various categories of persons and the dead]
   
• 2. f.56v-60v: De remediis fortuitorum ad Gallionem / Seneca.
   
• 1. f.1r-56r: De ludo scacchorum seu de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium / Jacobus de Cesulis.
   
• 9. f.106r: Locchi di cui parlay di caldamente ... [Rime, 292] / Petraccha.
   
• 29. f.174v-175r: Adsit principio sancta Maria meo [Prayer]
   

Extent

175 leaves : 190 x 122 (130 x 75-80) mm bound to 200 x 135 mm

Collation

Parchment, ii (18th-century paper) + 175 + ii (18th-century paper); 1¹⁰(-1) 2-3¹⁰ 4⁸(+1) 5-17¹⁰ 18⁸(-1); [1-175]; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto. Catchwords lower center on the last verso of gatherings 1-15 except for gathering 11 (f. 108v).

Support

Parchment

Binding

18th-century leather over pasteboards, spine and board edges gilt, marbled endpapers.

Layout

Written in 26-42 long lines; ruled in lead and faint ink.

Decoration

11 ink drawings illustrating the De ludo scachorum: the author in monastic habit at his desk (f. 1r); king and king chess-piece (f. 4r); judge and bishop chess-piece (f. 10r); knight and knight chess-piece (f. 12v); carpenter and pawn chess-piece (f. 24v); builder and pawn chess-piece (f. 27r); scribe and pawn chess-piece (f. 28v); merchant (f. 32v); innkeeper (f. 38r); city guard (?) with key and pawn chess-piece (f. 40v); and wasteful rogue with dice and perhaps coins (f. 43r). 5-line initial in red with infilling and ground of penwork in ink (f. 109r); 3-line initial in blue (f. 117r); rubrics and 2-line initials in red throughout; paragraph marks in red in De ludo scachorum and Computus (f. 1r-56r, 109r-124v); capitals touched with yellow throughout; occasional manicules added by later readers (for example, f.46v-47r).

Script

Written in Italian Gothic script, mostly in the hand of Franciscus Gennay (f. 56r, 71r, 92r, 124v).

Provenance

• Sold by H. P. Kraus (cat. 153, 1979, no. 51 and plate 127) to Irene and Peter Ludwig (Aachen, Germany; bookplates by Hans Erni on verso of front endpaper; ms. XV.16).
   
• Sold by Payne and Foss (London) to Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 4570, stamp on front flyleaf, paper label on spine).
   
• Appears in Jörn Günther's catalog Recent Acquisitions (Autumn 1997), p. 11; also in his display in Maastricht, 1998.
   
• Inscriptions by early readers: Paulus de Mantua (16th-century, f. 145v) and initials of an Augustinian (18th-century, f. 175r).
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
   
• Purchased by the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, Calif.), 1983.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1998.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Calendar--Early works to 1800
• Chess--Early works to 1800
• Medea (Greek mythology)
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Kings and rulers--Duties--Early works to 1800
• Rome--History--Civil War, 43-31 B.C
• Cesena (Italy)--History

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• palimpsests
• poems
• treatises
• Prayers
• Sermons
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Palimpsest
• Astronomy
• Christian

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De ludo scacchorum seu de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium, f. 1r
• fol. 24v — Drawing, Carpenter and pawn chess piece, f. 24v
• fol. 27r — Drawing, Builder and pawn chess piece, f. 27r
• fol. 28v — Drawing, Scribe and pawn chess piece, f. 28v
• fol. 32v — Drawing, Merchant, f. 32v
• fol. 38r — Drawing, Innkeeper, f. 38r
• fol. 56v — De remediis fortuitorum ad Gallionem, f. 56v
• fol. 61r — Ymago mundi, f. 61r
• fol. 71v — Cronica gestorum a Cesare et Pompeio, f. 71v
• fol. 92v — De nominibus dignitatum et officiorum, f. 92v
• fol. 95r — Letter to Boniface IX, f. 95r
• fol. 103v — Correspondence between Giangaleazzo Visconti and Bologna, f. 103v
• fol. 104v — Gregorius in moralibus vel super Ezechiele, f. 104v
• fol. 106r — Locchi di cui parlay di caldamente..., f. 106r
• fol. 106r — Si tosto come aven che llarcho scocchi..., f. 106r
• fol. 106v — Quando dal proprio sito si rimove..., f. 106v
• fol. 106v — El tempo vago e prati novelli ..., f. 106v
• fol. 107r — Pulchre orationes beate Marie Virginis, f. 107r
• fol. 108v — De virtutibus et gratiis, f. 108v
• fol. 109r — Computus, f. 109r
• fol. 125r — Tragedia quedam de casu Cesene, f. 125r
• fol. 130v — Magistro Donato Cassintinensi gramatice preceptori, de consolatione filii sui defuncti, f. 130v
• fol. 138v — Fratri Gerardo Petracco, germano suo monacho Carthusiensi, exortans ipsum in vera religione, f. 138v
• fol. 146r — Excerpts from the Etymologiae, f. 146r
• fol. 151r — Sermo, f. 151r
• fol. 153v — Letter to Pasquino Capelli, f. 153v
• fol. 156r — Letter to the chancellor of Florence, f. 156r
• fol. 156v — Letter to Pietro da Moglio, f. 156v
• fol. 157v — Letter to Antonio, chancellor of Perugia, f. 157v
• fol. 157v — Epistola Pilati ad Tyberium, f. 157v
• fol. 158r — Suprascriptus Donatus universitati studii Florentini..., f. 158r
• fol. 159r — Successus Medee querentis de deceptione Iasonis, f. 159r
• fol. 169r — De verborum copia, f. 169r
• fol. 173r — Votive prayers for various categories of persons and the dead, f. 173r
• fol. 174v — Adsit principio sancta Maria meo, f. 174v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Drawing, Monk writing at desk, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Decorated descender, Face, f. 1r
• fol. 2v — Manicule, f. 2v
• fol. 4r — Drawing, King and king chess piece, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Manicule, f. 4v
• fol. 7v — Manicule, f. 7v
• fol. 10r — Drawing, Judge and bishop chess piece, f. 10r
• fol. 11r — Drawing, Face, f. 11r
• fol. 12v — Drawing, Knight and knight chess piece, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Manicule, f. 13r
• fol. 16v — Manicule, f. 16v
• fol. 17r — Manicule, f. 17r
• fol. 20r — Manicule, f. 20r
• fol. 21v — Manicule, f. 21v
• fol. 22r — Manicule, f. 22r
• fol. 23r — Manicule, f. 23r
• fol. 23v — Manicule, f. 23v
• fol. 25r — Manicule, f. 25r
• fol. 26r — Decorated descender, Face, f. 26r
• fol. 37r — Manicule, f. 37r
• fol. 38v — Manicule, f. 38v
• fol. 40v — Drawing, City guard (?) with key and pawn chess piece, f. 40v
• fol. 43r — Drawing, Wasteful rogue with dice and perhaps coins, f. 43r
• fol. 43v — Manicule, f. 43v
• fol. 44r — Decorated descender, f. 44r
• fol. 44v — Manicule, f. 44v
• fol. 57r — Manicule, f. 57r
• fol. 60r — Manicule, f. 60r
• fol. 60v — Manicule, f. 60v
• fol. 71v — Decorated initial, Face, f. 71v
• fol. 92r — Decorated descender, Face, f. 92r
• fol. 92v — Decorated ascender, Face, f. 92v
• fol. 99r — Manicule, f. 99r
• fol. 99v — Decorated initial, Initial I, Face, f. 99v
• fol. 107r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 107r
• fol. 109r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 109r
• fol. 135v — Manicule, f. 135v
• fol. 137r — Manicule, f. 137r
• fol. 139r — Manicule, f. 139r
• fol. 139r — Decorated descender, Face, f. 139r
• fol. 141v — Manicule, f. 141v
• fol. 142r — Manicule, f. 142r
• fol. 142v — Manicule, f. 142v
• fol. 145r — Manicule, f. 145r
• fol. 146v — Decorated descender, f. 146v
• fol. 147r — Manicule, f. 147r
• fol. 150v — Manicule, f. 150v
• fol. 152r — Manicule, f. 152r
• fol. 153r — Manicule, f. 153r
• fol. 157r — Manicule, f. 157r
• fol. 159r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 159r
• fol. 160r — Manicule, f. 160r
• fol. 163r — Manicule, f. 163r
• fol. 163v — Manicule, f. 163v
• fol. 165r — Manicule, f. 165r
• fol. 165v — Manicule, f. 165v
• fol. 167r — Manicule, f. 167r