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Alea evangelii ("Game of the Gospels"〔) is a member of the tafl family of games. Known from an eleventh-century Irish manuscript〔Helmfrid 2005, p.9.〕〔Murray 1951, p.61.〕〔("Alea evangelii " ), boardgamegeek.com〕 (where it is given a Christian scriptural context),〔("Game-Playing, Moral Purpose, and the Structure of "Pearl"" ), Michael Olmert, The Chaucer Review〕 it is played on the intersections of an 18 by 18 squares game board (the same configuration as a go board, and larger than that of most ''tafl'' games). The manuscript, Corpus Christi College ms. 122 (folio 5 verso), attempts to give scriptural meaning to a hnefatafl variant, and, though the layout is unwieldy, its proportions are also found in a game board fragment unearthed at Wimose (on the Danish island of Funen).〔 ==Transmission of the game through CCC MS 122== Manuscript CCC MS 122 is composed of 117 pages. It includes three sections: the ten Eusebian Canons (or tables) representing how each Gospel agrees with or differs from the others; the “Alea Evangelii” diagram and two pages of explanation in Latin; the Vulgate Latin version of the four Gospels, preceded by St. Jerome's prologue.〔"Catalogus Codicum MSS. qui in Collegiis Aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur", H.O. Coxe, (Oxford, 1852)〕 The manuscript is written in an Irish hand and is commonly dated to the eleventh century. The description of the game states that it was invented at the court of King Æthelstan of England (924–939) by two learned men: an anonymous Frank and Israel the Grammarian, one of the main European scholars of his times. The diagram and its explanation were brought to Ireland by Dub Innse, bishop of Bangor (d. 953).〔"Israel the Grammarian in Anglo-Saxon England", Michael Lapidge, 1992〕 The captions that label the different sides of the diagram and many of the pieces intermix Latin and ancient Irish. The diagram presents numerous errors with respect to the accompanying text. Most notably, not counting the piece at the center of the board, 69 pieces appear on the diagram, while the text describes the position of 72 pieces. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alea evangelii」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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