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Title

Jacobus de Cessolis: De ludo scacchorum, incomplete

Authors

• Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322 (http://viaf.org/viaf/14802130)

Other related names

• Allen, George, 1808-1876, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/47547724)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

22
(Philadelphia, United States, Library Company)

Alternate identifiers

• Call-Accession-number: Ms. 22 Allen 138

Publisher

Library Company

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a humanistic copy of Jacobus de Cessolis's De ludo scacchorum, a comparison of the relationships of a king with his subjects to the rules of chess. The names of classical and Christian authors cited in the text are written in the margins as part of the manuscript's rubrication. Readers' notes also appear in the margins. Gatherings are missing from the beginning of the volume, so that the extant text begins in the middle of the fifth chapter of the second treatise; three additional leaves have been torn out (fols. 2, 24, 37). A list of the Ten Commandments and a mnemonic verse about them (Walther 19669) are written after the end of the De ludo scacchorum (fol. 45r).

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Balance 2466 (1442); 2467 (1446); 2472 (1464)

Extent

47; 235 x 165 mm bound to 248 x 175 mm

Collation

1 (10, -2), 2 (10), 3 (8, -4), 4 (10, -9), 5 (9, +1)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Decorated catchwords arranged on scrolls, lower center last verso

Binding

Contemporary (fifteenth-century) doeskin with remnant of one metal clasp on back cover

Layout

Written in one column of twenty-six lines; frame-ruled in drypoint with vertical bounding lines; author citations written in side margins

Decoration

Four catchwords arranged and decorated as if on scrolls (fols. 10v, 20v, 28v, 38v); rubrication, marginal author citations, and paragraph marks in red ink throughout; occasional decorative descenders extended into the lower margin from letters in the last line; spaces for four- or five-line initials and illustrations at the beginning of chapters left blank

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Fifteenth-century genealogical notes are written in inside the back cover; formerly in the chess collection of George Allen (Philadelphia, 1808-1876); purchased from the heirs of George Allen by the Library Company of Philadelphia, no. 138 (1878; bookplate inside front cover)
   

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• Italian
• Humanistic
• Italy

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Tractatus secundus (partial)]
• fol. 8v — Tractatus tertius de formis schaccorum popularium
• fol. 32r — Tractatus quartus de motu et progressu eorum
• fol. 45r — Praecepta legis Mosaicae
• fol. 45r — Versus

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Armorial bookplate
• fol. 4v — Manicule
• fol. 5r — Manicule
• fol. 10v — Decorated catchword
• fol. 11v — Manicule
• fol. 20v — Decorated catchword
• fol. 28v — Decorated catchword
• fol. 28v — Manicule
• fol. 33v — Manicule
• fol. 38v — Decorated catchword