Meister Ingold: Guldin Spil

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The information is given in Dutch language, likely troublesome for English readers, so I describe the most important details: The composition was printed 4x (first by Jan van Westfalen te Leuven in 1477, then 1498, 1529 and 1551), long after the death of the authors. The central passage with informations to Jan van Berghe is:<br><br> <center><table border="1" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="white" width="90%"><td> Het tweede gedeelte van het hier besproken handschrift (fol. 105ro-161vo) bevat Dat kaetspel ghemoralizeert, waarin een parallel wordt getrokken tussen het kaatsspel en de rechtspleging in de 14de eeuw. Het werk werd in 1431 geschreven, in navolging van Dat scaecspel, door Jan van den Berghe, een oud-baljuw, op verzoek van ridder Rudolf van Uutkerke, een bevorderaar van een rechtvaardige rechtspraak en een groot liefhebber van het kaatsspel. Het werk bevat 103 exempelen, waarvan er 15 aan de H. Schrift en bijna alle overige aan klassieke schrijvers zijn ontleend, onder wie Valerius Maximus en Seneca een eerste plaats innemen. Uit Dat scaecspel zijn 26 exempelen overgenomen. </td></table><br><br></center> It's described, that the card playing part of Jan van den Berghe takes fol. 105ro-161vo, about a 3rd of the complete text. With ca. 50 folios it is a text of considerable length, behind Johannes of Rheinfelden's Tractacus (1377) and the text of Martiano da Tortona (ca. 1424/25 ?), which accompanied the Michelino deck, the 3rd oldest document of this category, follwed short after in 1432 by Master Ingold's moralization.<br> The author compares card playing with themes of law in 14th century. Jan van den Berghe is given as a "oud-baljuw", which seems to be the title of a highstanding official in older Flemish times, similar to gouvenor. He followed in the idea of his work the suggestion of his colleague, the knight Rudolf van Uutkerke, who was known for his interests in law, and who was also a great friend of card games. The work contains 103 examples, from which 15 are taken from the bible and nearly all others from classical writers, especially Valerius Maximus and Seneca. 26 Examples are taken from the chess game description (sorry, my understanding of Dutch language is only rudimentary, so my description may contain errors).<br><br> A second <a href="http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=berg050" target="_blank">INTERNET PAGE</a> presents some data to the author Jan van den Berghe, born 1360 in te Handzame and died 7th of October 1439 te Handzame. <P>Biography:<BR> 1. K. ter Laan, Letterkundig woordenboek voor Noord en Zuid (1941) <BR> 2. G.J. van Bork en P.J. Verkruijsse, De Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs (1985) </P> <P>Works:<BR> 1. Dat kaetspel ghemoralizeert (zj.) <BR> 2. Juridictien van Vlaenderen (zj.) </P> <P>Edition:<BR> J.A. Roetert Frederikse (ed.), Van het kaetspel (1915) </P> <P>Secondary literature:<BR> </B>Luc Debaene, ‘Kaetspel ghemoraliseert (Jan van den Berghe)´ In: De Nederlandse volksboeken (1951) </P> Three pages of biography (p. 24-27) for Jan van den Berghe are included in this <a href="http://home.scarlet.be/~vcv001/mededelingen%202005-4.pdf" target="_blank">PDF-FILE</a>, which inform about a remarkable long career in different important services and functions. The central passage, which reports about the card game text and the literary career, is only short and doesn't add much informations to the already mentioned: <br><br> <center> <table border="1" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="white" width="90%"><TD> Op het einde van de jaren 1420 – in de herfst van zijn politiek-ambtelijke loopbaan - begon hij met het samenstellen van een werk waarin het kostumiere recht voor de eerste maal in Vlaanderen van een algemeen standpunt uit werd beschouwd. Het werk, dat er kwam op suggestie van de collega hertogelijke raadsheer en ridder Rudolf van Uutkerke en ook aan hem werd opgedragen, droeg de titel “Dat Kaetspel ghemoralizeert” en was klaar in 1431. Ridder Rudolf was een bevorderaar van een rechtvaardige rechtspraak en een groot liefhebber van het kaatsspel. Het werk behandelt geen technische vraagstukken maar geeft een trouwe weerspiegeling van de opvattingen die de toenmalige leidende Vlaamse kringen in het recht wilden zien zegevieren. Met een moraliserende bedoeling en met verhalende exempelen schetst Jan van den Berghe een allegorische uitbeelding aan de hand van het kaatsspel van de in zijn tijd gebruikelijke rechtspleging. Pas op het einde van zijn leven ging Jan van den Berghe er pas toe over om een puur technisch rechtstraktaat te schrijven: “De juridictien van Vlaenderen”. In vraag- en antwoordvorm worden er een aantal regelingen uit het kostumiere Vlaamse procesrecht behandeld en het is met dit werk dat hij een definitieve stek in de rechtsgeschiedenis wist te veroveren. </td></table></center> <h3>Master Ingold (1432), Thomas Connecte (1428) and card-production in Tournay (1427)</h3> The text of Jan van den Berghe in 1431 knows some interesting contemporary appearances: <a href="trionfi.com/0/mi/00/" target="_blank">Master Ingold in Strassbourg (1432)</a>, who wrote a moralisation against card-playing, Thomas Connecte, a preacher against card-playing just in the same region, who was later discarded as a cheater (1428), and the start of a successful and enduring card production nearby in Tournay, together with some similar appearances in Northern Italy, preachings against card playing in 1423 in Bologna by San Bernardino (1423) and extreme expensive playing card productions in Ferrara (1423) and Milan (Michelino deck, likely 1424/1425).<br><br><IMG SRC="http://www.rusjoker.ru/wwpcm/decks06/d04139/d04139s02.jpg" WIDTH="" HEIGHT="" BORDER="0" ALT=""> In my opinion this reflects a social change, which saw in the 20's of 15th century an increased interest in card-playing, likely connected to a technological revolution, which accompanied the new use of woodcut technique in the production of playing cards. In 1414 Nurremberg, the city with the most mentioned playing card producers in Germany in 15th century (38 persons), has in this year only a single "kartenmoler" (card painter, not card printer), and it is the first, who is noted with this profession in the city. Printing processes in context with playing cards are first noted for the begin of the 1420's. <br><br> <H3>Master PW and the city of Cologne</H3> Jan van den Berghe (1431) used Seneca texts in his work as base for his examples.<br><br> It's interesting, that the <A HREF="http://trionfi.com/0/j/d/masterPW/index.html" target="_blank">deck of Master PW </a>(ca. 1500), who worked in Cologne, includes 5 inscriptions, which all are identified as quotations of Seneca (with thanks to Marco, who detected this interesting feature by requesting the search engines). Seneca was teacher of the later Roman emperor Nero, who himself was son of Agrippina, who is given as founder of the city of Cologne (the old Roman expression for Cologne was CCAA = Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium). By her husband, Emperor Claudius, Agrippina reached, that in the year 50 AD her birthplace Cologne was raised to the rank of a Roman city. It seems obvious, that Master PW's deck, which includes a special card with the inscription "Salve Felix Colonia", not accidently did contain Seneca quotations, but that it was intended by the artist to express some proud city patriotism with this choice. <br> A context from this choice in ca. 1500 to the Jan van den Berghe manuscript (1431) wasn't researched by us in detail (still we didn't get the text), however, the requested internet page informs, that the Historische Archiv Cologne has an old "Ripuarisch afschrift" ("bevindt zich in hs. Keulen, Historisches Archiv, G.B. 4o 87") of van den Berghe's text. The local distance between Cologne and the Flemish countries is near (100 - 200 km), so a more or less direct influence looks natural. <br><br> <B>(autorbis)</B> </td><td valign="top" width="220"><center><IMG SRC="p/berghe.jpg"><br><br><B>picture from the manuscript</b> </td></table> </body> </html></td></tr></table> <hr><br><br> <center><b><font size="1">Trionfi.com </b>has its focus on Tarot History and especially the origin of Tarot in 15th century, also the representation of about 100 000 Tarot and other playing cards in the Tarot Museum. <br>The Chapter <b>Meister Ingold and the game of the Wein-pauwer</b> is about the "Guldn Spil, a text from 1432, which describes 7 games which are - according to Ingold - related to seven sins. <br> Copyright: trionfi.com. 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