The buke of the chess
Subtitle: edited from the Asloan manuscript (NLS MS 16500)
By: edited by Catherine Van Buuren.
Contributors: Buuren, Catherine van.; Jacobus, de Cessolis, fl. 1288-1322.
Series: STS ;; 4th ser., 27; Scot. Text S. ;; 4th ser., 27.
Publisher: Scottish Text Society
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Chess -- Poetry.; Social classes -- Poetry.; Chess -- Early works to 1800.; Scots language -- To 1700 -- Texts.
Genres: Poetry.; Early works to 1800.; Texts.
Other titles: Asloan manuscript.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. cxlvi-clv).
"Unique Middle Scots version of the Ludus Scaccorum ... by one Jacobus de Cessolis ... [with] a new transcription of item 2, the anonymous Buke of the chess"--P. xii.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter; title: I INTRODUCTION Xii; title: II PHONOLOGY OF STRESSED VOWELS IN xvii; title: RHYME; title: III THE ORTHOGRAPHY OF THE BUKE OF THE xxxi; title: CHESS; title: IV ANGLICISATION IN THE BUKE OF THE CHESS xl; title: V ACCIDENCE xlvii; title: VI VOCABULARY AND DATABLE FEATURES IN lxii; title: THE BUKE OF THE CHESS; title: VII METRE AND RHYME lxxiii; title: VIII THE STYLE OF THE BUKE OF THE CHESS AND lxxxi; title: ITS PLACE IN THE SCOTTISH TRADITION; title: IX SUMMARY OF THE CONTENTS lxxxix; title: X 'THE BUKE OF THE CHESS AND THE MEDIEVAL xcv; title: GAME' BY DR WIM TIGGES; title: XI THE SOURCE OF THEBUKE OF THE CHESS x; title: - THE TRANSLATOR'S PROFICIENCY cxix; title: - COMPARISON BETWEEN THE LUDUS CXxii; title: SCACCORUM ANDTHE BUKE OF THE CHESS; title: - COMPARISON OF LATIN NAMES IN THE cxxvii; title: LUDUS SCACCORUM AND THE BUKE OF THE; title: CHESS; title: - ORIGINAL AND UNIQUE FRAGMENTS IN cxxxviii; title: LUDUS SCACCORUM MANUSCRIPTS; title: XII NOTE ON EDITORIAL METHOD cxli; title: XIII SCRIBAL ABBREVIATIONS AND THEIR cxliii; title: EXPANSIONS; title: XIV BIBLIOGRAPHY cxlvi; title: XV TEXT OF THE BUKE OF THE CHESS 3; title: XVI TEXTUAL NOTES 75; title: XVII EXPLANATORY NOTES AND COMMENTS 82; title: XVIII GLOSSARY 93; title: XIX LIST OF PROPER NAMES AND PLACE-NAMES IN 203; title: THE BUKE OF THE CHESS; title: APPENDIX: COMPARISON OF LSc AND BCh AS 210; title: TO PASSAGES THEY DO NOT HAVE IN; title: COMMON.