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The game and playe of the chesse
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Date: | Au plus tard en 1474 |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Forme: | Prose |
Contenu: | Traduction du Libellus de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium ac popularium super ludo scachorum de Jacques de Cessoles d'après l'original latin et la version française composite de Jean de Vignay et de Jean Ferron. |
Incipit: | To the right noble/ right excellent & vertuous prince George duc of Clarence Erle of warwyck and of salifburye/ grete chamberlayn of Englond & leutenant of Irelond oldest broder of kynge Edward by the grace of god kynge of England and of france/ your most humble servant william Caxton amonge other of your seruantes sendes unto yow peas… |
Explicit: | … Praynge your good grace to resseyue this lityll and symple book made vnder the hope and shadowe of your noble protection by hym that is your most humble seruant/ in gree and thanke And I shall praye almighty god for your longe lyf & welfare/ whiche he preserue And sende yow thaccomplisshement of your hye noble. Ioyous and vertuous desirs Amen:/: Fynysshid the last day of marche the yer of our lord god. a. thousand foure honderd and lxxiiii. |
Manuscrits
Éditions anciennes
- The game and playe of the chesse
Bruges, [William Caxton] et Colart Mansion, 1474Exemplaire en ligne: [HT]
Éditions modernes
- Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse, 1474, a verbatim reprint of the first edition. With an introduction by William A. E. Axon, London, Stock, 1883, lxxii + 200 p. [GB] [IA]
Traductions modernes
Études
- Antin, David, « Caxton's the Game and Playe of the Chesse », Journal of the History of Ideas, 29:2, 1968, p. 269-278. DOI: 10.2307/2708580
- Cooley, Franklin D., « Two notes on the chess terms in the Book of the Duchess », Modern Language Notes, 63:1, 1948, p. 30-35. DOI: 10.2307/2908639
- Knowles, Christine, « Caxton and his two French sources: The Game and Playe of the Chesse and the composite manuscripts of the two French translations of the Ludus scaccorum », The Modern Language Review, 49:4, 1954, p. 417-423. DOI: 10.2307/3719592
- Mohl, Ruth, The Three Estates in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, New York, Ungar, 1933, xi + 425 p. [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
- Wilson, Robert H., « Caxton's chess book », Modern Language Notes, 62:2, 1947, p. 93-102. DOI: 10.2307/2909132
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