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CESSOLIS, Jacobus de (fl. late 13th/early 14th century, O.P.). De Ludo Scachorum. With other medieval texts. [Italy: ca. 1400].
Median 2° (302 x 225 mm.). MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. Collation: 1-412 (Cessolis, 4/5r-10r and 4/11v-12v blank); 5-712 (Allegorie Fabularum Ovidi Magistri Johannis Baptiste, 7/2r-8v Historia de Septem Sapientibus, 7/9-12 blank); 8-1012 (De Vita et Moribus Philosophorum Veterum, 10/9v-12v blank): 120 leaves. At least two Italian paper stocks, watermarks: hillock within circle with cross surmount (including type of Briquet 11906, recorded in a Palermo document dated 1392). Brown ink, rubricated in red, three book scripts with notarial and bâtarde characteristics; index to Cessolis in cursive notarial script. (A few small wormholes). 18th-century Italian flexible vellum-backed pasteboard binding. Provenance: L.G. Mantuani (inscr. and stamps).
Although hundreds of manuscripts of Cessolis' great chess allegory have survived, those of a relatively early date are extremely rare on the market. Literature: E. Köpke, "Iacobus de Cessolis" (Mittheilungen aus den Handschriften der Ritter-Akademie zu Brandenburg a. H., Programm no. 59 joined with the 23rd "Jahresbericht"); T. Kaeppeli, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi II (1975).
Median 2° (302 x 225 mm.). MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. Collation: 1-412 (Cessolis, 4/5r-10r and 4/11v-12v blank); 5-712 (Allegorie Fabularum Ovidi Magistri Johannis Baptiste, 7/2r-8v Historia de Septem Sapientibus, 7/9-12 blank); 8-1012 (De Vita et Moribus Philosophorum Veterum, 10/9v-12v blank): 120 leaves. At least two Italian paper stocks, watermarks: hillock within circle with cross surmount (including type of Briquet 11906, recorded in a Palermo document dated 1392). Brown ink, rubricated in red, three book scripts with notarial and bâtarde characteristics; index to Cessolis in cursive notarial script. (A few small wormholes). 18th-century Italian flexible vellum-backed pasteboard binding. Provenance: L.G. Mantuani (inscr. and stamps).
Although hundreds of manuscripts of Cessolis' great chess allegory have survived, those of a relatively early date are extremely rare on the market. Literature: E. Köpke, "Iacobus de Cessolis" (Mittheilungen aus den Handschriften der Ritter-Akademie zu Brandenburg a. H., Programm no. 59 joined with the 23rd "Jahresbericht"); T. Kaeppeli, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi II (1975).