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

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Manuscript
175 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 190 x 122 (130 x 75-80) mm bound to 200 x 135 mm
Production:
[Italy], 1409.
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Other Title:
De moribus hominum et officiis nobilium.
Subjects:
Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Calendar -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Chess -- Early works to 1800.
Chess.
Kings and rulers -- Duties -- Early works to 1800.
Kings and rulers -- Duties.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character).
Liturgics.
Rome -- History -- Civil War, 43-31 B.C.
Cesena (Italy) -- History.
Form/Genre:
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Palimpsests.
Poems.
Treatises.
Prayers.
Sermons.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Latin, with a few poems in Italian (f. 106r-108v).
Biography/History:
Vicar of the Inquisition attached to the Convent of Saint Dominic in Genoa.
Summary:
Compilation, mostly in Latin, of religious, literary, historical, and natural-historical works, including classical and contemporary selections, as well as letters by humanist writers Francesco Petrarca and Donatus Albanzani. Over a quarter of the manuscript is devoted to the De ludo scachorum of Jacobus de Cessolis, a collection of sermons about the proper relationships between a king and various classes of subjects, compared to the rules of chess (f. 1r-56r). Other moderately substantial texts include descriptions of various geographic regions from Honorius of Autun's De imagine mundi (f. 61r-71r); a brief history of the Roman civil wars (f. 71v-92r); and the Computus of Bono da Lucca, which deals with the calendar, lunar cycles, and calculations for determining the date of Easter (f. 109r-124v). The manuscript is a palimpsest, with the lower text from the 14th century, probably legal.
Contents:
1. f.1r-56r: De ludo scacchorum seu de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium / Jacobus de Cesulis.
2. f.56v-60v: De remediis fortuitorum ad Gallionem / Seneca.
3. f.61r-71r: Ymago mundi / Ysidorus [misattributed; Honorius of Autun]
4. f.71v-92r: Cronica gestorum a Cesare et Pompeio.
5. f.92v-94v: De nominibus dignitatum et officiorum.
6. f.95r-103r: [Letter to Boniface IX] / Cassius Pauli Pollastre de civitate Narniense.
7. f.103v-104v: [Correspondence between Giangaleazzo Visconti and Bologna, 1390]
8. f. 104v: Gregorius in moralibus vel super Ezechiele.
9. f.106r: Locchi di cui parlay di caldamente ... [Rime, 292] / Petraccha.
10. f.106r-107v: Si tosto come aven che llarcho scocchi ... [Rime, 87 / Francesco Petrarca]
11. f.106v: Quando dal proprio sito si rimove ... [Rime, 41 / Francesco Petrarca]
12. f.106v: El tempo vago e prati novelli ... [unattributed sonnet]
13. f.107r-108v: Pulchre orationes beate Marie Virginis [Rime, 366 / Francesco Petrarca]
14. f.108v: De virtutibus et gratiis [Prayer, Initia carminum ac versum medii aevi..., 2058]
15. f.109r-124v: Computus / editus a magistro Bono [da Lucca]
16. f.125r-130r: Tragedia quedam de casu Cesene / composita per ser Colutium de Stignano [misattributed; Ludovico Romani da Fabriano]
17. f.130v-138v: Magistro Donato Cassintinensi gramatice preceptori, de consolatione filii sui defuncti / Petracca [Epistolae senile, X.4]
18. f.138v-145v: Fratri Gerardo Petracco, germano suo monacho Carthusiensi, exortans ipsum in vera religione / Petracca [Epistolae familiares, X.3]
19. f.146r-151r: [Excerpts from the Etymologiae / Isidore of Seville]
20. f.151r-153v: Sermo / Donati Cassitinensis quem recitavit publica in plebe [Donato Albanzani]
21. f.153v-156r: [Letter to Pasquino Capelli / Giangaleazzo Visconti]
22. f.156r-156v: [Letter to the chancellor of Florence] / Donatus Cassintinensis [Donato Albanzani]
23. f.156v-157r: [Letter to Pietro da Moglio] / Idem Donatus [Donato Albanzani]
24. f.157v: [Letter to Antonio, chancellor of Perugia] / Idem Donatus.
25. f.157v-158r: Epistola Pilati ad Tyberium.
25. f.158r-158v: Suprascriptus Donatus universitati studii Florentini, respondens electioni sibi transmisse, ut legert gramaticam, rethoricam, et poetas / [Donato Albanzani]
26. f.159r-168v: Successus Medee querentis de deceptione Iasonis.
27. f.169r-171v: De verborum copia [Alphabetical list of aphorisms, Initia carminum latinorum saeculo undecimo antiquiorum, 39]
28. f.173r-174r: [Votive prayers for various categories of persons and the dead]
29. f.174v-175r: Adsit principio sancta Maria meo [Prayer]
Notes:
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 (?) with key and pawn chess-piece (f. 40v); and wasteful rogue with dice and perhaps coins (f. 43r). 5-line initial in red with infilling and ground of penwork in ink (f. 109r); 3-line initial in blue (f. 117r); rubrics and 2-line initials in red throughout; paragraph marks in red in De ludo scachorum and Computus (f. 1r-56r, 109r-124v); capitals touched with yellow throughout; occasional manicules added by later readers (for example, f.46v-47r).
Binding: 18th-century leather over pasteboards, spine and board edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in 1409 (f. 71r).
Local notes:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
Penn Provenance:
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.
Cited in:
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 145 (LJS 267).
Publications about:
Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 246-48 (cat. 73).
Cited as:
UPenn LJS 267.
Contributor:
Gennay, Franciscus, compiler.
Ludwig, Peter, 1925-1996, former owner.
Ludwig, Irene, former owner.
J. Paul Getty Museum, former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Contains:
Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322. De ludo scachorum.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. De remediis fortuitorum.
Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, 1351-1402.
Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156. De imagine mundi. Selections.
Pollastre, Cassius Pauli.
Boniface IX, Pope, approximately 1355-1404, addressee.
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Rime. Selections
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Epistolae. Selections.
Petrarca, Gerardo, addressee.
Bono, da Lucca, -1279 or 1280. Computus lunaris.
Ludovico, da Fabriano.
Albanzani, Donato, approximately 1326-approximately 1411.
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636. Etymologiae. Selections.
Capelli, Pasquino, addressee.
Pietro, da Moglio, addressee.
Cronica gestorum a Cesare et Pompeio.
De nominibus dignitatum et officiorum.
Epistola Pilati ad Tiberium.
Successus Medee querentis de deceptione Iasonis.
De verborum copia.
OCLC:
791456280