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GAMES AND PASTIMES -- BAROZZI, Francesco (1528-1612). Il nobilissimo et antiquissimo giuoco Pythagoreo nominato Rythymomachia cioè battaglia de consonantie de numeri. Venice: Gratioso Perchacino, 1572.
Small 4° (202 x 145mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams, ornamental initials. (A few margins lightly finger soiled, light browning, light spotting.) Modern old-style calf. Provenance: erased inscription on title and a few marginalia.
FIRST EDITION, SCARCE. This treatise describes the medieval number game of 'Rithmomachia' or 'Battle of the Numbers', which was often attributed to Pythagoras but probably originated in the eleventh century. The game was played on a board with eight squares on one side and sixteen on the other, with pieces known as circles, triangles, squares and pyramids, each of different value. This work is one of three standard treatises on the ancient game of Rythmomachia, the earliest dating from 1496 possibly by Shirwode or by Faber Stapulensis, in an edition of Boethius, followed by another work by Claude de Bossière published in 1556. Riccardi I, 83; Smith p.340.
Small 4° (202 x 145mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams, ornamental initials. (A few margins lightly finger soiled, light browning, light spotting.) Modern old-style calf. Provenance: erased inscription on title and a few marginalia.
FIRST EDITION, SCARCE. This treatise describes the medieval number game of 'Rithmomachia' or 'Battle of the Numbers', which was often attributed to Pythagoras but probably originated in the eleventh century. The game was played on a board with eight squares on one side and sixteen on the other, with pieces known as circles, triangles, squares and pyramids, each of different value. This work is one of three standard treatises on the ancient game of Rythmomachia, the earliest dating from 1496 possibly by Shirwode or by Faber Stapulensis, in an edition of Boethius, followed by another work by Claude de Bossière published in 1556. Riccardi I, 83; Smith p.340.
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