Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Jeu des échecs moralisé
France, probably Paris, between 1350 and 1360
MS G.52 fol. 47v

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Jacobus de Cessolis: Text, Jeu des Échecs, Chapter 16 -- Bernard of Clairvaux, nimbed, tonsured, wearing monk's habit, stands and gestures to man, barechested, kneeling on one knee beside low table with three dice and holding in left hand reins of horse. Trees in background.
Margins with ivy-rinceaux ornament.