2007 DE LUDO SCACHORUM by LUCA PACIOLI - Listing # 15081

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2007 "DE LUDO SCACHORUM" by LUCA PACIOLI

+ "GLI SCACCHI di LUCA PACIOLI" by VARIOUS AUTHORS

THE VERY SPECIAL LUXURY EDITION OF ONLY "L" COPIES

THIS IS THE NUMBER "IV"

Various Authors: "GLI SCACCHI DI LUCA PACIOLI. EVOLUZIONE RINASCIMENTALE DI UN GIOCO MATEMATICO" + Facsimile of "DE LUDO SCACHORUM".

Sansepolcro, Aboca Museum Edizioni, 2007. Original hardbound publisher edition, in 2 volumes in a luxury slipcase. Total measures of the set inside its slipcase: 32,6 x 27,5 x 7,9 cm. In Italian.

Excellent to as new: Very minor defects. Virtually as new.

This Luxury Edition was published in a series of 999 copies numbered and authenticated (THE PRICE OF THIS SERIES OF 999 IS 1850 EUR!!!), and in a series of ONLY 50 COPIES NUMBERED IN ROMAN CHARACTERS, EQUALLY AUTHENTICATED, AND OUT OF COMMERCE. THIS INFORMATION APPEARS ON THE FACSIMILE. THE COPY OFFERED IN THIS AUCTION IS COPY N. IV OF THE SERIES OF ONLY 50 COPIES IN ROMAN CHARACTERS.

Below I give the descriptions and characteristics provided by the Editorial.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FACSIMILE

Size 12 x 16 cm

The facsimile is inserted in a special case made from the wood of a centuries-old oak tree.

The case has been hand-crafted and each individual piece has been immerged in a mixture of incense, myrrh, mastic gum, and organic alcohol in order to preserve it and keep it unchanged over time.

The spine of the case is printed with 15th century characters.

The facsimile has been produced with paper that has been folded and cut by hand; the cuts have been treated with coloured methylcellulose; the stitching, done by hand using satin stitch on double cords, is done in hemp with cotton thread.

The cover is in hand-dyed goatskin and the dry engravings are imprinted with magnesium plates.

THE SLIPCASE

In addition to the facsimile, the valuable slipcase presents the associated critical essay that completes the work and make it easy to understand.

The slipcase, with elegant hotfoil stamping, has a window to the front "at, which makes it possible to immediately admire the beauty of the facsimile.

Each piece is numbered and is accompanied by a guarantee certificate.

CRITICAL ESSAY

GLI SCACCHI DI LUCA PACIOLI

EVOLUZIONE RINASCIMENTALE DI UN GIOCO MATEMATICO

(LUCA PACIOLI’S CHESS

RENAISSANCE EVOLUTION OF A MATHEMATICAL GAME)

Size 24 x 28.5 cm. Bound paperback packaging; imitlin hardcover with impressionin hot gold. 280 pages with 299 illustrations.

Within the context of the undoubtedly extensive literature on this sector, the essay Luca Pacioli’s Chess is worthy of being included amongst the most innovative, thanks to the unpublished nature of the manuscript De Ludo Scachorum, on which it is based. The book critically analyzes the original work and credits authorship to the great Renaissance mathematician, a student of Piero della Francesca and close friend of Leonardo.

Closely associated with the facsimile reproduction of Pacioli’s work, the book is the result of the contributions of leading experts in the chess-playing and palaeographic-linguistic areas who discuss complex subjects such as the historic profile of chess, the phases of recovery, the transcription of the manuscript,the attribution of authorship and the chess technique used by Pacioli.

To the traditional rules he added those of the a la rabiosa technique.

One hundred and fourteen entries, with the detailed transcription of the individual “decisions” and the resolution of chess problems, complete the contents of the book.

A SPECTACULAR SET!!! AN AUTHENTIC GIFT FOR THE SENSES!!!

DE LUDO SCACHORUM

Aboca Museum Edizioni presents the facsimile of the original manuscript De ludo scachorum by Luca Pacioli, a Renaissance mathematician and economist from Sansepolcro.

Written around 1500, and impossible to find for five centuries,it was recently uncovered at the State Archive of Gorizia.

Pacioli wrote the treatise in the vernacular during the periodof his artistic and scientific collaboration with Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, Mantua, and Venice.

As Pacioli himself states, it is a iocondo et alegro tractato usefulas a “schifanoia” (to steer clear of boredom); today it is also an example of mathematical and logical strategies of that time.

The manuscript has aroused great interest because it contains “decisions” made in the medieval manner and others in accordance with the new a la rabiosa technique, introduced at the end of the sixteenth century.

With this artistic publication Aboca Museum Edizioni confirms its desire to develop the historical knowledge of its territory, the Tuscan Valtiberina area, alongside its traditional interest in medicinal plants.

“Jocondo et allegro tractato”. A fascinating description of logic and mathematics, a volume for all lovers of chess and the historic evolution of the game.

Aboca Edizioni presents the facsimile from the limited run of De ludo scachorum, a manuscript written by Luca Pacioli. Taken from the Coronini Cronberg archive by Duilio Contin, director of the Bibliotheca Antiqua at Aboca Museum, the volume describes 117 games of chess, some of which played according to the revolutionary technique, a la rabiosa.

From the comment by Alessandro Sanvito: "Luca Pacioli was not only a chess player, but a true expert and passionate follower of this mental discipline which, with its multitude of possibilities, was bound to garner the interest of a scientist of his eminence. It is possible that Pacioli was fascinated by the complex characteristics of chess, but it was not a passing infatuation; more likely a passion of long standing. […] One of the primary reasons for his interest in chess could be found in a modern chess concept. A game of chess, according to current theories, is divided into three parts. The first is the opening, then the central part of the game and finally the end game. For this final part it has been suggested that given a final position, and the hypothesis that neither players will make a wrong move, the outcome is mathematically null. And because the games, while only hypothetically and without ever forgetting the purpose of the challenge, almost always simulate positions that had check mate as the goal, you can imagine how this peculiarity could stimulate the attention of a mathematician of his stature".

The commentary accompanying the text is the work of linguists, paleographers and grandmasters and covers all the phases of revealing and transcribing the manuscript, and attributes it to Luca Pacioli and the chess techniques illustrated by the major Renaissance mathematician.

The facsimiles from the Aboca Edizioni collection are worthy publications, created with precious materials and avant-garde printing techniques. For the De ludo scachorum hand cut and folded paper was used, while the two-thread, full stitch sewing is on hemp with cotton thread. The volume is boxed in a wooden case that experts have cut from a single block of centuries-old oak and immersed in a mixture of incense, myrrh, Chios mastic and natural alcohol, in order to preserve it unchanged for the years to come.

Notes

Introduction by Valentino Mercati.Contributions by Diego D'Elia, Serenella Ferrari Benedetti, Duilio Contin, Attilio Bartoli Langeli, Enzo Mattesini, Alessandro Sanvito, Adolivio Capece.

Other information

Dedicated to the Marchioness of Mantova, Isabella d’Este, the manuscript, entitled De Ludo Scachorum Schifanoia, was mentioned by Pacioli in his De Viribus Quantitatis and in a privileged application for advanced printing, but never realised, in 1508 at the Venetian Senate. Since those years the work fell into oblivion and was rediscovered by Duilio Contin in December 2006 between the 22,000 volumes of the Coronini Cronberg archive, as ms. 7955 XV century. Count Guglielmo Coronini had personally acquired the precious manuscript which was in his possession at least from 1950, the year of a letter in which he instructed, for potential sale, The Rosenbach Company in New York.

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Item weight 3513g

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Listing Format:	Auction
Current price :	€1 100,00
Starting bid:	€1 000,00
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# of bids:	2
Closes:	Auction is closed
Location:	Spain
Started:	2019-05-25 14:19:55
Ended:	2019-05-26 21:04:00
Seller:	victorneus (878)
High Bidder(s):	holdco (763)
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