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Fragmenta Manuscripta 194: Chess Diagrams

Medieval parchment fragment with a checkerboard in red link, of which 15 squares have abbreviations for the positions of chess pieces. (recto)
Medieval parchment fragment with a checkerboard in red link, of which 9 squares have abbreviations for the positions of chess pieces. (verso)

Information About This Item

Title

Fragmenta Manuscripta 194: Chess Diagrams

Date

1300 - 1350

Description

Grid of 8 X 8 squares in red ink, recto and verso, diagrams on recto and verso largely coincide but laid out separately.
Condition: Top of chess leaf (images only, text cropped)
Notes: From the same manuscript as Fragmenta Manuscripta 153.

Relation

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.
Fragmenta Manuscripta 153: https://library.missouri.edu/specialcollections/items/show/576

Is Referenced By

Digital Scriptorium: https://search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS10267

Identifier

Fragmenta Manuscripta 194

Provenance

John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

Format

Parchment - 115 x 135 mm

Type

manuscript fragment

Coverage

France

Collection

Fragmenta Manuscripta Collection.

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