Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Jeu des échecs moralisé
France, probably Paris, between 1350 and 1360
MS G.52 fol. 11r

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Jacobus de Cessolis:Text,Jeu des Échecs, Chapter 5 -- Lucretia, wearing veil, with looped braids, stabs herself in abdomen with knife held in her left hand. Four men, including her husband and her father, witness scene.
Margins with ivy-rinceaux ornament.