The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 276
suppose that the vanity of the Germans, which had attri-buted to themselves the discovery of printing, desired, with about asmuch reason, to appropriate also the invention of cards—that is, of wood-engraving. We shall, therefore, act judiciously in paying but little attentionto this doubtful… … Fig. 203.—Chess-PIayers. Fac-simile of a Miniature of the Thirteenth Century. (MS. 7,266, Bibl. Imp., Paris. extant in India ? Or was it one peculiar to the Arabs ? These are ques-tions which must remain unsolved. The only facts presented to our noticeare, that in 1379 cards made their appearance…
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