Konrad von Ammenhausen

Konrad Ammenhausen was a Benedictine monk and later secular priest in Stein am Rhein, who lived in the first half of the 14th century.

Life

He came from the area of Stein am Rhein. His exact survival data are unknown. He is busy 1324-1325.

He became famous for his 1337 book consummate chess Zabel, a German rhyme version of the work of Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilum ac popularium super ludo scacchorum. Konrad himself writes that he niht at the time of writing his book was even old ( still young ).

His version gained a lot of popularity and is available in over 20 manuscripts and numerous incunabula. It was reprinted from the 16th century and again.

Expenditure

  • The Chess Zabel book Kunrats Ammenhausen. In addition to the chess books of Jakob von Cessole and Jakob Mennel. Edited by Ferdinand cousin. J. Huber, Frauenfeld 1892 ( Library of older literary works of the German part of Switzerland and its borderlands. : Series 1, Supplementary Volume ).
  • The Chess Zabel book of Jacobus de Cessolis, operating in Middle High German prose translation. Edited by Gerard F. Schmidt. E. Schmidt, Berlin, 1961 ( texts of the late Middle Ages. Vol. 13)
  • Facsimile: Konrad Ammenhausen: The Chess Zabel book. The illustrations of the Stuttgart handwriting. In pictures edited and explained by Carmen Bosch Schairer. Kümmerle, Göppingen 1981, ISBN 3-87452-432-9 ( Litterae. Vol 65).
  • Konrad Ammenhausen: Chess Zabel book. Translated and annotated by Renate Hausner. Unionsdruckerei, Schaffhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-03-302662-9.
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