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De morbius et officys vivendi : manuscript, [between 1450 and 1500]

Title
De morbius et officys vivendi : manuscript, [between 1450 and 1500]

Alternative Title: De morbius et officis vivendi

Alternative Title: De moribus hominum et officys nobilium super ludum schachorum

Alternative Title: De ludo scachorum
Creator / Contributor
Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322
Place of Origin
Germany
Language
Latin
Description
Extent: 36 leaves, bound ; 31 cm.
print
Subjects
Chess--Early works to 1800
Genre
Manuscripts, Medieval-Germany-1450-1500.
Rules (layout features)
Early works to 1800
Notes
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.
MS Lat 169. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Series
Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository
Houghton Library, Harvard University

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