The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1037

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9919

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1037

Title:

De ludo scachorum

Author:

Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322

Jacobus de Cessolis WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 47 : paper ; 150 x 215 mm

Former Owner(s):

Barrett, Oliver R. 1873-1950

Oliver R. Barrett WIKIDATA

Note:

Support: Paper.
Script: Semitextualis.
Layout: 112(-1) 212 310 414. Catchwords in frames centered in lower margin. 23-29 long lines, the last folio verso with 38 lines. Frame ruled in lead with single bounding lines; pricking in the upper and lower margins.
Watermark(s): Monts, the simple form, not in Briquet.
Other Decoration: Plain 3- or 2-line red initials with guide letters visible; red paragraph marks; rubrics in a gothic display script, in the ink of the text to f. 22v, thereafter in red ink.
Occasional nota marks; f. 32 cancelled with "vacat."
Assigned Date: s. XV2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
Written in Italy perhaps in the northeast according to linguistic forms in the text. Probably in the province of Brescia at the time of its binding. It later belonged to the collector of Lincolniana, Oliver R. Barrett (1873-1950); sale of a "notable American collector" by the American Art Association, 20 December 1920, n. 547 to J. Adams for Henry E. Huntington.

Keyword:

Vellum bindings

watermarks

manuscripts (documents)

Chess

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862151

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52140/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens