Tractatus de ludo scacorum
Series: Colección Librería rara
Publisher: Siloé
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Burgos
Language: lat
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9788493545949
Subjects: Facsimiles; Chess; Early works to 1800; Manuscripts; Illumination of books and manuscripts; Gothic Illumination of books and manuscripts; Biblioteca Nacional (Spain)
Notes: The original's elegant gothic lowercase lettering, some of its abbreviation sign modes, and the characteristics of its delicate figures suggest an origin in the Bohemian Circle, which had its centre in Prague under Wenceslaus IV (1378 - 1419). The facsimile contains 15 brightly coloured miniatures which illustrate the text. They represent court scenes, game scenes and others like war or works and tasks, all of them moralizing. Parchment paper, handmade leather binding, walnut storage box.