Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Jeu des echecs moralisés
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| Other authors / contributors: | Jean, de Vignay, approximately 1284-
Adams, Katherine, 1862-1952, binder.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. former owner.
University of Chicago. Library. Codex Ms. 392.
University of Chicago. Library. Special Collections Research Center.
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| Provenance: | Acquired 1931.
Former owner's manuscript description on front pastedown and flyleaf, signed: Sydney C. Cockerell / Richmond Surrey / Mar 16 1907.
Provenance: Rev. Thomas Crofts (1783); Captain Douglas (1907); Sydney C. Cockerell.
Binding: 20th-century leather over boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine; binder's signature: Katharine Adams of Broadway, Worcestershire, 1907.
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| Notes: | Digital reproduction available on the Internet.
Text in French.
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| Summary: | French translation by Jean de Vignay of Jacobus de Cessolis's treatise on chess as a symbol of the Medieval society. Bound by Katherine Adams at Broadway, Worcestershire, 1907 for a previous owner, Sydney Cockerell. Prior to 1907, the manuscript was bound with Roman de la rose (Special Collections Research Center codex Ms1380).
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| Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note: | Description available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
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