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CESSOLIS, Jacobus de (fl. late 13th/early 14th century, O.P.). De Ludo Scachorum. [Toulouse: Heinrich Mayer, ca. 1494].
Chancery 4° (200 x 130 mm.). Collation: a-g8 h4 (a1 blank, a2r Incipit libellus de ludo scachorum et de dictis factisque nobilium virorum philosophorum et antiquorum ... Multorum ordinis nostri et diversorum scolarium precibus persuasus, g7v-h4r index, h4v blank). 60 leaves (first blank misbound at the end). Types: 9:92G (text), 8:101G (headings). 29 lines. Contemporary rubrication. (Lightly washed). 19th-century English calf gilt, edges gilt, (rebacked). Provenance: contemporary inscription (faded); Nicolas Yemeniz (bookplate; Bachelin-Deflorenne sale, Paris 1867); J.W. Rimington Wilson (inscr.; Sotheby's Feb. 1928).
Fourth edition, reprinted from Heinrich Turner's Toulouse edition of ca. 1476 (GW 6524). These two south-western French editions follow a different recension from the first edition, Utrecht 1474 (GW 6523), and from the third edition, Milan 1479 (GW 6525). ONE OF FIVE COPIES KNOWN, AND IN VERY FINE CONDITION. H 4892; GW 6526; Goff C-410; IGI 2716; CIBN J-16; Schmid p. 35.
Chancery 4° (200 x 130 mm.). Collation: a-g8 h4 (a1 blank, a2r Incipit libellus de ludo scachorum et de dictis factisque nobilium virorum philosophorum et antiquorum ... Multorum ordinis nostri et diversorum scolarium precibus persuasus, g7v-h4r index, h4v blank). 60 leaves (first blank misbound at the end). Types: 9:92G (text), 8:101G (headings). 29 lines. Contemporary rubrication. (Lightly washed). 19th-century English calf gilt, edges gilt, (rebacked). Provenance: contemporary inscription (faded); Nicolas Yemeniz (bookplate; Bachelin-Deflorenne sale, Paris 1867); J.W. Rimington Wilson (inscr.; Sotheby's Feb. 1928).
Fourth edition, reprinted from Heinrich Turner's Toulouse edition of ca. 1476 (GW 6524). These two south-western French editions follow a different recension from the first edition, Utrecht 1474 (GW 6523), and from the third edition, Milan 1479 (GW 6525). ONE OF FIVE COPIES KNOWN, AND IN VERY FINE CONDITION. H 4892; GW 6526; Goff C-410; IGI 2716; CIBN J-16; Schmid p. 35.