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ff. 1-47v. [Jacobus de Cessolis] De ludo scaccorum. Incipit: Inter omnia mala signa in homine unum est quando homo non timet deum per culpam. Explicit: ut in ipso possumus in perpetuum regnare cum ipso et vivere ipso prestante, hunc autem librum in honorem nobilium et solatium et maxime scientium construxi. Amen. Rubric: De causa inventionis ludi et sub quo rege inventus fuit capitulum primum. Tractatus primus de causa inventionis ludi predicti, capitulum primum sub quo rege predictus ludus inventus fuit. Latin. Kaeppeli, SOPMA 2066 citing this manuscript. E. Köpke, ed. Jacobus de Cessolis. Mitteilungen aus den Handschriften der Ritter-Akademie zu Brandenburg an der Havel (Brandenburg a. H. 1879). The text is preceded by a prologue ("Incipit prohemium libri compositi de ludo scachorum a fratre de sexolis ordinis predicatorum, Multorum fratrum ordinis nostri et diversorum scolarium precibus persuasus . . .") and a chapter list. 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. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound in a limp parchment wrapper, made up of 2 scraps, one a legal document, s. XIV, the other mercantile, s. XV, both apparently from the same area: the place names mentioned are Brescia, Gavardo, Fostaga, and Villanova (the last 3 are in the province of Brescia). The contemporary paper liners have been unglued from the covers, and show lists of receipts and debts dealing with wheat, rye and spelt, one of which is dated 1446; linguistic forms indicate the Veneto. HM 1037. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
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.
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