Re: Chess variants 14th/15th century
Posted: 01 Dec 2013, 01:42
In the discussion ...
Collection: "3 Magi" and "3 theological virtues"
appeared this original picture ...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c5EjM4lUmaA/U ... irtues.JPG
... which was modified by myself after some analysis to ...
It's titled "Radix virtutem" (at the bottom) and for this terminus I found this passage in ....
http://books.google.de/books?id=ayHUD_2 ... 22&f=false
Each virtue-word got 7 attributed words, so totall 56 termini are presented in a logical context. As addition 8 figures are presented ... the 4 cardinal virtues are recognizable, two theological virtues are presented as angels on top.
Central is the figure of a male angel and Mary, who logically takes the role of "Caritas" and mother figure inside the virtues. The "promised son" Jesus is outside of the frame (still not born and so not counted as a figure).
The number of the used elements is 56 + 8 = 64 ... well-known as the number of the fields on a chess board.
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It's a hypothesis (inside the expanded 5x14-theory), that in the Cary-Yale Tarocchi the figures of the 7 virtues were used as "7 of 8 pawns".
Compare the article of 2003: http://trionfi.com/0/c/35/
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Some information to the original picture is here ...
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/medieval/zoom.php?id=92
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Added later:
The picture presented (Radix etc ...) in the last post appears at ...
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.asp ... s_83_f129r
... one page before appears this picture ...
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.asp ... s_83_f128v
The number of "words" is again 56, the number of the figures (if I count the viper as a figure) is 63 (not 64). Adam+Eve and the viper are clear, the both other human figures and the two devils are not clear. One might be "Saturn" or he has at least similarity. One has to work in this world of vices.
If I count Jesus as the 65th element at the other picture about Virtues, I get for the two pages twice the number 64, one as 64+1 and the negative as 64-1.
Collection: "3 Magi" and "3 theological virtues"
appeared this original picture ...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c5EjM4lUmaA/U ... irtues.JPG
... which was modified by myself after some analysis to ...
It's titled "Radix virtutem" (at the bottom) and for this terminus I found this passage in ....
http://books.google.de/books?id=ayHUD_2 ... 22&f=false
Each virtue-word got 7 attributed words, so totall 56 termini are presented in a logical context. As addition 8 figures are presented ... the 4 cardinal virtues are recognizable, two theological virtues are presented as angels on top.
Central is the figure of a male angel and Mary, who logically takes the role of "Caritas" and mother figure inside the virtues. The "promised son" Jesus is outside of the frame (still not born and so not counted as a figure).
The number of the used elements is 56 + 8 = 64 ... well-known as the number of the fields on a chess board.
*************
It's a hypothesis (inside the expanded 5x14-theory), that in the Cary-Yale Tarocchi the figures of the 7 virtues were used as "7 of 8 pawns".
Compare the article of 2003: http://trionfi.com/0/c/35/
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Some information to the original picture is here ...
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/medieval/zoom.php?id=92
*****************
Added later:
The picture presented (Radix etc ...) in the last post appears at ...
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.asp ... s_83_f129r
... one page before appears this picture ...
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.asp ... s_83_f128v
The number of "words" is again 56, the number of the figures (if I count the viper as a figure) is 63 (not 64). Adam+Eve and the viper are clear, the both other human figures and the two devils are not clear. One might be "Saturn" or he has at least similarity. One has to work in this world of vices.
If I count Jesus as the 65th element at the other picture about Virtues, I get for the two pages twice the number 64, one as 64+1 and the negative as 64-1.