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191.  Based on: a woodcut from the Italian book
‘ Libro di giuocho di scacchi ’
printed by Antonio Miscomini in 1493

 

Original art work:

 

 

Notes:

This illustration is the frontispiece from a book printed by Antonio Miscomini in Florence in 1493. The text of Miscomini's book is a translation into Italian of the Latin work ‘De Moribus Hominum et de Officiis Nobilium Super Ludo Scaccorum’ (c1300) by Jacobus de Cessolis (c1250 - c1322).

Note that the woodcut is from Miscomini c1493 - not from the original work in Latin by de Cessolis c1300.

Reference

Wilkinson, Charles K. (1943), A Thirteenth-Century Morality, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Summer, 1943), pp. 47-55.