Chronicon Cameracense et Atrebatense, siue Historia vtriusque ecclesiae, III. libris ab hinc DC. ferè annis conscripta. / A Balderico Noviomensi et Tornacensi Episcopo. Nunc primùm in lucem edita, & notis illustrata Per Georgium Coluenerium ...
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Chronicon Cameracense et Atrebatense, siue Historia vtriusque ecclesiae, III. libris ab hinc DC. ferè annis conscripta. / A Balderico Noviomensi et Tornacensi Episcopo. Nunc primùm in lucem edita, & notis illustrata Per Georgium Coluenerium ...
Created/published
Duaci : Ex officina Ioannis Bogardi, M. DC. XV.
Description
[40], 607, [17] pages [3] leaves of plates : tables ; (8vo)
Associated name
Baldericus, Bp. of Noyon and Tournay, -1113, author.
Baldericus, Cantor of Thérouanne, c. 1015-1095.
Colvener, Georges, 1584-1649.
Bogard, Jean, -approximately 1634, printer.
Baldericus, Cantor of Thérouanne, c. 1015-1095.
Colvener, Georges, 1584-1649.
Bogard, Jean, -approximately 1634, printer.
Note
Title vignette.
Includes index.
Head and tail pieces; initials.
Variously ascribed to Baldericus, Bp. of Noyon; Baldericus, Cantor of Thérouanne; or to an anonymous Canon of Cambrai. Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat.; Encycl. Brit. (1947); Historie litt. de la France, t. 8 (1865-69).
Includes index.
Head and tail pieces; initials.
Variously ascribed to Baldericus, Bp. of Noyon; Baldericus, Cantor of Thérouanne; or to an anonymous Canon of Cambrai. Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat.; Encycl. Brit. (1947); Historie litt. de la France, t. 8 (1865-69).
Place of creation/publication
France -- Douai.
Item Details
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269776
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The B. F. Saul Rare Book Acquisitions Fund. FSL copy has manuscript notes "Libri 4" inside front cover and "Usu fruitur Fr. Augustinus Wichmans Canonicus Nobertinus im Tungerlo. Sicut Aquila" on recto first fly leaf. Ink stamps of Bibliotheca Madeveldensis on recto first fly leaf. Manuscript signature on title page. Manuscript annotation (signature?) on recto of fly leaf opposite final page of text. Booksellers description: First edition, first appearance in print of the game Ludus regularis, seu clericalis, devised by the tenth century cleric Wibold, bishop of Cambrai. It is an important contribution in the study of randomness and chance. Wibold correctly enumerates the 56 different outcomes (without permutations) of playing with three dice. It is included here in the Chronicle of Cambrai and Arras by Balderic of Therouanne. [FSL note - possibly p. 460-471, no separate title page.]
Folger accession
269776