Versus de scachis

Versus de scachis
Cod. Einsidlensis 319, p. 298
Also known as	Einsiedeln Poem
Author(s)	Anonymous
Compiled by	Gall Morel
Language	Medieval Latin
Date	10th century
Provenance	Einsiedeln Abbey, Switzerland
Manuscript(s)	Codex Einsidlensis 365 and Codex Einsiedeln 319
Principal manuscript(s)	Codex Einsidlensis 365
Genre	Didactic poetry
Verse form	Elegiac couplet
Length	98 lines
Subject	Chess

Versus de scachis (Latin: "Verses on Chess"), also known as the Einsiedeln Poem^[1] in some literature, is the title given to a 10th-century Medieval Latin poem about chess. It is the first known European text to provide a technical description of chess for didactic purposes and it is considered a fundamental document to understand the development of chess in Europe.