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Volgarizzamento del libro de' costumi e degli offizii de' nobili sopra il giuoco degli scacchi di frate Jacopo da Cessole, tratto nuovamente da un codice Magliabechiano

Jacobus, de Cessolis, fl. 1288-1322, Marocco, Pietro, 1807-1834, ed · 1829 · Milano, Tip. del dottore G. Ferrario · 10 pictures

An Italian edition of Jacobus de Cessolis's medieval moral treatise on chess, edited by Pietro Marocco and printed in Milan in 1829 from a Magliabechian manuscript. The four woodcut-style pictures show scenes with a man in medieval dress set among walls, trees and tables, drawn in bold black line with decorative borders, offering a designer clear models of early woodcut narrative framing.

Chess

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