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Le Jeu des eschez moralise.

Accession number
PML 20976.1
Creator
Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322.
Published
Paris : Pour Anthoine Verart, 6 Sept. 1504.
Credit line
Purchase; 1919.
Notes
Collation: A1 recto title, verso full page cut showing Anne of Bretagne (to whom the book is dedicated) playing at chess with the king; table, Aii-ii recto, verso blank; text ends on l5 recto with col. on verso, & woodcut (fol. lx); 2nd treatise l6-piv recto, (fol. lxxxii) with full page cut of crucifixion etc., on verso; 3rd treatise, that of Melibeus & Prudence, p8-s6; the cut on piv verso is a repetition of one on biv verso.
First French ed.
Signatures: a⁴, b-s⁶.
Description
106 leaves (2 cols., 34 lines) 28 cm
Provenance
From the Firmin-Didot coll. with bookplate. See Cat. for 1879, no. 231.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
Classification
Department