Cento giuochi liberali, et d'ingegno / nouellamente da M. Innocentio Ringhieri gentilhumo Bolognese ritrouati & in dieci libri descritti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ringhieri, Innocenzio, active 16th century.

Contributor:

Giaccarello, Anselmo, active 1545-1565, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Games--Early works to 1800.

Games.

Games--Italy--Early works to 1800.

Italy.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Bologna -- 1551. -- Italy -- Bologna -- 1551.

Inverted blocks (Printing) -- Italy -- Bologna -- 1551.

Games.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered leaves, 162 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Cento givochi liberali, et d'ingegno

Fingerprint:

sile t-a. noo, QuSe (3) 1551 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Bologna : Per Anselmo Giaccarelli, M.D. LI [1551]

Notes:

First edition. Cf. Adams.

Printer's device on title page: Hercules slaying a 6-headed dragon with his club, surrounded by an oval frame formed by branches (Zappella 495); variant device (a phoenix drinking the rays of a woebegone sun with motto: "Io gloria in lui et esso in me virtule") on recto of final leaf.

Colophon reads: In Bologna, alle spese dell' authore. Impressa, per Anselmo Giaccarelli alli. XXV d'Agosto. M.D.LI.

Woodcut initials.

Inverted initial on verso of folio 53.

Signatures: [dagger]⁴ A-Z⁴ 2A-2S⁴ (2S4 blank).

"Givoco de Scacchi XCVIII": leaves 157 (verso)-158 (verso).

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full vellum; ms. drawing of the Crucifixion of Christ on front cover.

Culture Class Collection copy has large ms. drawings of different biblical scenes (the Baptism of Christ, the Annunciation, the Flagellation of Christ) on front and back free endpapers.

Cited in:

Adams R564

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 556

EDIT 16 CNCE 48459

OCLC:

2227139