GESTA ROMANORUM -- Ex Gestis Romanorum hystorie notabiles collecte de vicijs virtuti busque tractantes cum applicationibus moralisatis et mysticis [Venice, Georgius de Rusconsibus, 26th April 1516], 8°, Gothic type in two columns, A-T8, title with publisher's device of St. George and the dragon, woodcut initials, (A1-6 lightly wormed at lower margins, upper outer corners browned) contemporary binding of earlier manuscript vellum (lacking small section of spine and ties). [VDL Geschichte I, supplement p.144]

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GESTA ROMANORUM -- Ex Gestis Romanorum hystorie notabiles collecte de vicijs virtuti busque tractantes cum applicationibus moralisatis et mysticis [Venice, Georgius de Rusconsibus, 26th April 1516], 8°, Gothic type in two columns, A-T⁸, title with publisher's device of St. George and the dragon, woodcut initials, (A1-6 lightly wormed at lower margins, upper outer corners browned) contemporary binding of earlier manuscript vellum (lacking small section of spine and ties). [VDL Geschichte I, supplement p.144]

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PROVENANCE: Virginia de Vitellis (gift inscription dated 10th May 1525); ownership inscription dated 1656; Eduard Grisebach (bookplate); and Dr. Albrecht Buschke.

This popular medieval English collection of moral tales includes several chapters relating to chess.

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