Listing # 16156
| Listing Format: | Auction |
| Current price : | €410,00 |
| Starting bid: | €30,00 |
| # of bids: | 30 |
| Closes: | Auction is closed |
| Location: | Sweden |
| Started: | 2019-09-01 01:00:00 |
| Ended: | 2019-09-10 20:23:34 |
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| High Bidder(s): | mpkmpk (280) |
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Magee, James F. (ed): Good companion (Bonus Socius) - signed by the author.
XIIIth century manuscript collection of chess problems, illustrated with coloured frontispiece and thirthy-eight full page reproductions from the original manuscript; to which is added a short narrative of Jacobus de Cessolis and the two french champions Philidor and La Bourdonnais; edited by James F. Magee jr of Philadelphia.
Florence, Tipografia Giuntina, 1910. 68 pp, coloured frontispiece (facsimile) 35 plates (including 20 coloured facsimiles). 18 x 25,5 cm.
"This work actually contains photographic reproductions of part (38p) of the Latin chess problem parchment manuscript known as Bonus Socius, with description, history and interpretation by the editor. The translation of the text into English was made by various hands indirectly from an Italian translation of the Latin original. In this work the Latin text appears in the facsimiles, but is not otherwise reproduced. Murray dates the manuscript as 14th century (see BCM 1910, p 238) not 13th cntury as given. The remainder of the book contains a history and description of the manuscript of Jacobus de Cessolis and short biographies of Philidor and La Bourdonnais, all with relevant illustrations. The binding, in leather, is a replica of that containing the original Bonus Socius manuscript, with brass bosses and a brass clasp." [Betts]
L/N 2362. Betts 32-21. This book is no. 141 of a limited edition. The leather binding has ten brass bosses but no clasp. The book is signed by James F. Magee (see scan). Weight 980 g. Condition VG.
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