Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bonus socius
France, ca. 1300
MS M. 108 fol. 131r

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Scene, Sports and Games: Chess -- Within gold frame, chessboard with seven red and gold pieces on squares lettered A-N for fifteen moves; diagram numbered 261. To right of board, initial C decorated with scrolling foliate infilling and with foliate ascender and descender on which is goose tied by its neck to pole in ground.