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VIDA, Marcus Hieronymus (ca. 1490-1566, Bishop of Alba). De Arte Poetica Lib. III. De Bombyce Lib. II. De Ludo Scacchorum Lib. I. Hymni. Bucolica. Rome: Ludovico degli Arrighi, May 1527.
Chancery 4° (200 x 130 mm.). Collation: A-E8 F6 (Poetry); G-I8 (Silkworm); K8 L10 (Chess, L10 blank); M-O8 (Hymns and Bucolics, O8 blank). 111 leaves (of 112; without final blank). Arrighi's last cursive type (acquired ca. 1530 by Antonio Blado). 20 lines and headline, initial spaces with guide letters. (Light marginal staining). English purple straight-grained morocco gilt of ca. 1820, inside gilt borders, blue silk liners, gilt edges, (binding slightly rubbed). Provenance: Henry Venn Elliott 1792-1865, divine, abroad July 1817 - August 1820, fellow Trinity College, Cambridge (purchase inscription Florence 31st November 1817, paid 1s. 3d., binding 1.10).
First collected edition of Vida's poetry, THE REVISED SECOND (FIRST AUTHORISED) EDITION OF THE POEM ON CHESS. Only the Wolfenbüttel copy is known of the first, separate and unauthorised edition of De Ludo Scacchorum (ed. Hilary Bertulph, ? Florence or Basel: 1525). The poem describes in Virgilian Latin a game of chess played between Apollo and Mercury in the presence of the other Gods (Murray p. 791). This is the last production signed by Arrighi, whose shop may have perished in the sack of Rome (6th May 1527). FINE COPY. Mortimer Italian 535; van der Linde II, 258.
Chancery 4° (200 x 130 mm.). Collation: A-E8 F6 (Poetry); G-I8 (Silkworm); K8 L10 (Chess, L10 blank); M-O8 (Hymns and Bucolics, O8 blank). 111 leaves (of 112; without final blank). Arrighi's last cursive type (acquired ca. 1530 by Antonio Blado). 20 lines and headline, initial spaces with guide letters. (Light marginal staining). English purple straight-grained morocco gilt of ca. 1820, inside gilt borders, blue silk liners, gilt edges, (binding slightly rubbed). Provenance: Henry Venn Elliott 1792-1865, divine, abroad July 1817 - August 1820, fellow Trinity College, Cambridge (purchase inscription Florence 31st November 1817, paid 1s. 3d., binding 1.10).
First collected edition of Vida's poetry, THE REVISED SECOND (FIRST AUTHORISED) EDITION OF THE POEM ON CHESS. Only the Wolfenbüttel copy is known of the first, separate and unauthorised edition of De Ludo Scacchorum (ed. Hilary Bertulph, ? Florence or Basel: 1525). The poem describes in Virgilian Latin a game of chess played between Apollo and Mercury in the presence of the other Gods (Murray p. 791). This is the last production signed by Arrighi, whose shop may have perished in the sack of Rome (6th May 1527). FINE COPY. Mortimer Italian 535; van der Linde II, 258.