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Schachzabel.

Accession number
PML 26080
Creator
Mennel, Jakob, -1532?
Published
Konstanz : Johanne Schäffler, 1507.
Notes
Cf. Proctor 11947-11949 for press and publisher.
Folio size: 146 x 78 mm; text block: 204 x 132 mm
Last leaf blank.
Rhymed poem on the origin of chess and its rules.
Signatures: a⁶, b-c⁴.
Woodcuts: cut of a chessboard on t.p.; 6 spaces in the text evidently intended for cuts; 24 side borders from 4 blocks, perhaps by Jacob Koebel of Oppenheim?
Description
14 leaves (32 lines)
Binding
Grey boards.
Classification
Department