Hungary   June 18, 1974       21st Olympiad, Nice   and   50th Anniversary of FIDE

 

114.  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.