Harvard University, MS Lat 169

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11013

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 169

Title:

De morbius et officys vivendi

De ludo scachorum

Author:

Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322

Jacobus de Cessolis WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1450 and 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 36 leaves, bound ; 31 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Howland, Silas W., 1879-1938

Silas W. Howland WIKIDATA

Merton, Wilfred

Wilfred Merton WIKIDATA

Vernon, George John Warren, 5th baron, 1803-1866

George Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in southwestern Germany in a cursive gothic bookhand by three scribes; blank space for initial letter (f. 1r).
Title from rubric (f. 1v).
In a 19th-cent. English half-sheepskin and marbled paper binding.
In a tray case, 32 cm.
Bookplate of George John Warren, fifth Baron Vernon; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 June 1918 and 2 following days, no. 135; to Merton, probably Wilfred Merton (1889-1957).
Bequest of Silas W. Howland, class of 1904, 1938.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Germany

rules (layout features)

Chess

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093465140203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:18095447

Holding Institution:

Harvard University