University of Pennsylvania, LJS 267

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DS ID:

DS143

Shelfmark:

LJS 267

Title:

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

Miscellany

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1409.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

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

Latin WIKIDATA

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 175 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 190 x 122 (130 x 75-80) mm bound to 200 x 135 mm

Former Owner(s):

Ludwig, Peter, 1925-1996

Peter Ludwig WIKIDATA

Ludwig, Irene

Irene Ludwig WIKIDATA

J. Paul Getty Museum

J. Paul Getty Museum WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from closing rubric for predominant work (f. 56r).
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). Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 26-42 long lines; ruled in lead and faint ink.
Script: Written in Italian Gothic script, mostly in the hand of Franciscus Gennay (f. 56r, 71r, 92r, 124v).
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...
Binding: 18th-century leather over pasteboards, spine and board edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in 1409 (f. 71r).
Inscriptions by early readers: Paulus de Mantua (16th-century, f. 145v) and initials of an Augustinian (18th-century, f. 175r).
Sold by Payne and Foss (London) to Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 4570, stamp on front flyleaf, paper label on spine).
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).
Purchased by the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, Calif.), 1983.
Appears in Jörn Günther's catalog Recent Acquisitions (Autumn 1997), p. 11; also in his display in Maastricht, 1998.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1998.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

Fifteenth century

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

poems

Manuscripts, Latin

palimpsests (manuscripts)

Sermons

treatises

Prayers

Chess

Catholic Church

Liturgics

Calendars

Early works

Rome (Empire)

History

Roman Civil War (Rome : 43-31 B.C.)

Italy--Cesena

Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character)

Astronomy

Kings and rulers--Duties

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9948617063503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3251fk8k/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania