Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Jeu des échecs moralisé
France, probably Paris, between 1350 and 1360
MS G.52 fol. 35r

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Jacobus de Cessolis: Text, Jeu des Échecs, Chapter 12 -- Female statue of city of Rome, wearing fillet (?), holding globe in raised left hand, on pedestal beneath crenelated canopy, is flanked by other male and female statues, in architectural niches with Gothic pinnacles.
Margins with ivy-rinceaux ornament.