The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 274
uppose that the vanity of the Germans, which had attri-buted to themselves the discovery of printing, desired, with about asmuch reason, to apjDropriate 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-Playcrs. Far-s!mi!e of a Miniature of tlie Thirteenth Century. (.MS. 7,266, Bibl. Imp., Paris. extant in India ? Or was it one peculiar to the Arabs ? Tliese are ques-tions which must remain unsolved. The only facts presented to our noticeare, that in 1379 cards made their…
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