Schachzabel
Schachzabel is the medieval German name for the game of chess , which is also used as a technical term in historical science.
The term Schachzabel can already be found in Old High German in the spelling "Schachzabal". The word component "zabel" is derived from the Latin tabula (= board, board). Both the game itself and the chessboard were referred to as Schachzabel .
The numerous chess allegories in European literature of the late Middle Ages are called Schachzabel Books in the German-speaking area and generally refer to prose translations and prose adaptations of the Latin chess book by Jacobus de Cessolis , which serves as a "manual of the preachers and as reading material for monastic communities and a collection of examples for city dwellers" . However, they were also written as rhyming works.
A detailed description of the game can be found in the Libro de los juegos ("Book of Games") Alfons the Wise , which was created around 1283 .
Historical sources
(Selection)
- Jacobus de Cessolis : This little book shows the interpretation of the schachzabel game, and human customs, also from the nobles . Knoblochzer, Strasbourg 1483.
- Jacobus de Cessolis: Schachzabel . Schönsperger, Augsburg 1483.
- Marco Girolamo Vida : Schachzabel - An artificial / erable and funny game / so please those from the knighthood / as from the pen / and the student youth responsible . Scher, Strasbourg 1606.
literature
- Oliver Plessow: Medieval chess books between game symbolism and the mediation of values - Jacobus de Cessolis's chess treatise in the context of its late medieval reception . Rhema, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-930454-61-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Schwob : Schachzabel Books. In: Author's Lexicon . Volume VIII, Col. 589-592.
- ↑ Pastor to the pike. In: Author's Lexicon . Volume VII, Col. 556.