COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
Bookreader Arabic MS 767 [59]
Reference Number:
Arabic MS 767 [59]
Parent Work Title:
Example of battle in the movement of chess-contenders
Date Created:
1446 CE [850]
Description:
Treatise on the game of chess. Writing is a handsome old Naskhi. Gilt title page. Rubrication, headings are mostly in blue. In the text there are over fifty square diagrams of problems, and ten in circular arrangement. There is an English note on the book on the fly-leaf by Rev. G. C. Renouard in a memorandum written for John Fiott. Fifteen lines to the page.
Language Code:
ara
Subject:
Chess--Early works to 1800
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Printing (process)
Support:
Leather
Item Height:
174 mm
Item Width:
130 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Bland, Nathaniel, former owner
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
Mingana, A. 'Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester', Manchester University Press 1934
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2014-01-23
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2014-01
Metadata Language:
eng-GB