Description
Printed woodcuts on a single sheet, folded to fit the 4º format, placed at the end of the book. There are three circular boards of the game and a pointer, spacialy arranged to best fit the paper sheet. The larger board contains the same information as the pieces of the game: twelve virtues and twenty-four vices; their order on the Tree Diagram; virtues’ natural order and vices’ type (excess/defect). The middle board contains twenty-four degrees (used to calculate the intentions and remissions of the soul). The smaller board contains twelve human passions, six of which intensify our actions and the other six “cool down†our intensions. The pointer represents free-will. The boards and pointer are meant to be placed on top of oneanother and spin ramdomly, thus providing the players of the game with all the information necessary to calculate the games’ moves and progress. Inside the book, there are thirty-six woodcuts of the pieces of the board game distributed in sets of 9 per sheet, ff. 15-16v, printed in 4º (21cm). The pieces are round, of c. 3cm in diameter. The pieces contain three levels of information: in the middle, the abbreviated name of a virtue or vice; on top, the order in which each appears on the Tree Diagram (also found on a separate sheet at the end of the book) from bottom to top, in roman numerals; bellow, the natural value of each virtue and/or the indication of the type of vice (excess/defect).
Bibliography
Roger Friedlein, 'L'atzar en la filosofia moral. Un joc de tauler lul.lista de Joao de Barros: Dialogo sobre Preceitos Morais (1540)', Studia Lulliana, 47 (2007), pp.117-139.
