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De ludo scachorum

Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322, Zainer, Günther, -1478, printer, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1477 · [Augsburg, Günther Zainer] 1477. · 20 pictures

De ludo scachorum is a chess moralizing treatise by Jacobus de Cessolis, printed by Günther Zainer in Augsburg in 1477 for a general readership of clergy and laity. Its woodcuts show chess pieces as allegorical figures in workshops, streets and rooms, with dense black-letter text beside each image, giving designers a model for pairing period woodcut figures with heavy gothic typography.

Augsburg · Chess · Early works to 1800 · Germany · Incunabula

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