Versus de scachis

Versus de scachis is a Medieval Latin poem about chess. It is found on two manuscripts from Einsiedeln: MS Einsidlensis 365 and MS Einsidlensis 309. A copy of the poem in manuscript 319 at Stiftsbibliothek Einsiedeln has been given the estimated date of 997 CE. If this date is accurate it makes the work the earliest known reference to chess in a European text.

See also

• Chess in Europe
• Chess in early literature

References

• Versus de scachis - Wikisource
• Hermann Hagen (1877). Carmina medii aevi maximam partem inedita, (Berne), pp. 137–141.
• H. J. R. Murray (1913). A History of Chess, (Oxford University Press)
• Helena M. Gamer, "The Earliest Evidence of Chess in Western Literature: The Einsiedeln Verses," Speculum, Vol. 29, No. 4. (October 1954), pp. 734–750.