Libros del axedrez dados et tablas
(The book of chess).

ALFONSO X, THE WISE (Author)

Origin: Spain, XIIIth c.
Biblioteca del Monasterio del Escorial. Patrimonio Nacional.

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Mss. T.I.6.
Facsimile. Illuminated manuscripts.
1283.
84-85935-26-8.
978-84-85935-26-0.
30,5 x 42 cm.
100+2 crd.
200+4 crd.
Latin.
1283.
1987.
2000.
Hand dyed goatskin.
Games.
Presentation dust jacket includes facsimile and commentary volume.
Coedited with Patrimonio Nacional and the editor Luis Arana. Specially made paper aged, imitating vellum. 150 illustrations illuminated with gold leaf and in full. Limited edition numbered and signed by notary.

Libros del axedrez dados et tablas. Estudios/Commentary.

Luis VÁZQUEZ DE PARGA (Author)

Ana DOMÍNGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ (Author)

Ricardo CALVO (Author)

Mechthild CROMBACH (Author)

Manuel GÓMEZ DE PABLOS (Author)

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Estudios. Manuscritos iluminados.
84-85935-27-6.
978-84-85935-27-7.
30,5 x 42 cm.
392.
Spanish and English.
1987.
Engraved half leather and cloth.
Games.

Synopsis:

This work in itself is an historic and artistic monument, which has been unedited for more than 700 years. Faced with the importance and complexity of this work, our editorial joined forces with the Patrimonio Nacional de España (Spanish National Heritage) and the prestigious editor Luis Arana in order to reproduce this work, whose codex may be found in the Escorial Monastery.
                   
The Libro del axedrez dados et tablas (Book of chess, dices and tables), by Alfonso X the Wise, completed in 1283, a year before the death of the King, was carried out on parchment with a format of 28 x 40 cm. It is made up of 200 leaves (99 straight and turned exactly), written and illustrated in colour and with gold leaf, with a profusion of scenes. In total, due to there being some pages without illustration, there are 150 miniatures in a good state of conservation.

This edition is the first complete facsimile and colour edition, and is accompanied by a complementary volume in which historic, artistic and chess studies are featured, besides the complete transcription of the text, all this by prestigious professors and academics. This work appears as a monument of symbolic hermetic literature of the era, turned by means of game into the genuine transmitter of knowledge who travel from the far East and are lost bit by bit in each transmission.

Excellent and unique piece of work in its gender and in the history of chess, completed seven hundred years ago, it documentally introduces the game of chess into Europe and confers it the range corresponding to a game of kings and noble and intelligent people.

IBIC Rating:

1D Europe
1DSE Spain
1DSEH Castilla y León, Autonomous Community
2ADL Latin
3H c 1000 CE to c 1500
AC History of art / art & design styles
ACK History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400
AFC Painting & paintings
AFJ Other graphic art forms
AFT Decorative arts
DNF Literary essays
HBJD European history
HBLC Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
HBLC1 Medieval history
WCS Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter
WDMG1 Chess

1D Europe
1DSE Spain
1DSEH Castilla y León, Autonomous Community
2ADL Latin
3H c 1000 CE to c 1500