Ludus scacchiæ = chesse-play : a game, both pleasant, wittie, and politicke : with certain briefe instructions therevnto belonging /

Ludus scacchiæ = chesse-play : a game, both pleasant, wittie, and politicke : with certain briefe instructions therevnto belonging /

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Imprint:	London : Reprinted by Harding and Wright, [1810?]
Description:	1 v. (various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Chess Chess -- Bibliography. Chess.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1978780

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Other title:	Chesse-play.
Other authors / contributors:	Damiano, de Odemira, approximately 1480-approximately 1544 Vida, Marco Girolamo, approximately 1485-1566 Rowbothum, James G. B. B., W. G. G. W. B. Gruget, Claude. Blochimo, G.
Notes:	Ascribed by Brunet, Graesse, and Lowndes to G. Blochimo. Originally published: London : Printed by H. Jackson, 1597. 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. Photocopy. [Des Moines, Iowa] : LBS Archival Products, 1991. 21 cm.

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