Ludus scacchi: chesse-play : A game, both pleasant, wittie, and politicke : with certain briefe instructions therevnto belonging / translated out of the Italian into the English tongue ; containing also therein, a prety and pleasant poeme of a whole game played at chesse ; written by G.B.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Damiano, of Odemira, active 1512.

Vida, Marco Girolamo, approximately 1485-1566.

Rowbothum, James.

Blochimo, G.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Chess.

Chess--Bibliography.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered pages, 30 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Printed at London : by H. Iackson, dwelling beneath the conduite in Fleetstreet., 1597.

Contents:

[pt. 1] To the reader greeting (signed : G.B.) The chesseplay (signed : G.B.)

[pt. 2] Scacchia lvdvs : chesse play (signed : W. [G.] B.) To the reader (signed : G.B.)

Notes:

Title within ornamental border.

Ascribed by Brunet, Graesse, and Lowndes to G. Blochimo.

According to Brit. mus. Catalogue, pt. [1] is merely an abridgment of Rowbothum's translation of Damiano da Odemira's "Libro da imparare giocare a scachi", published at London, 1562, under the title "The pleasaunt and wittie play of te cheasts renewed ... Lately translated out of Italien into Frenche [by Claude Gruget] and now set forth in Englische".

Part 2 is a free rendering of Marco Girolamo Vida's poem "Scacchia ludus". cf. Linde, Gesch. u. lit. d. schachspiels, vol. II, p. 268.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 6216

ESTC S109216

OCLC:

11585725