The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 278
se that tlie vanity of the Germans, wliicli Lad attri-buted to tbcmselves the discoverj^ of priuting, desired, with about asmucb reason, to appropriate also tbe invention of caixls—that is, of wood-ongraving. AYe sball, therefore, act judiciously in ixiying but little attentionto this doubtfid… … Fig. 203.—Chess-Players. Fac-similé of a Miniature of the Thirteenth Century. (MS. 7,266, Bibl. Imp., Paris. estant in India ? Or was it one peculiar to the Arabs ? Thèse 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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