Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bonus socius
France, ca. 1300
MS M. 108 fol. 107r

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Scene, Sports and Games: Chess -- Within gold frame, chessboard with twenty red and gold pieces on squares lettered A-F for six moves; diagram numbered 201. To right of board, initial C decorated with scrolling foliate infilling terminating in long-eared, dragon-like hybrid animal; extensions. Lower margin decorated with scrolling, foliate extension on which is perching long-eared, dragon-like hybrid animal.