The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 378
the queen of Charles VI. of France. Her portrait,very neatly finished, occurs twice, and that of the king- herhusband once. The author of this MS. makes Ulysses to bethe inventor of chess; and the painting is intended to representthat chieftain engaged with some other Grecian hero who iscome to… … 101. Chess-board.—XIV. Century. In this representation is exhibited the manner of placing- thepieces, which are thus called in Latin verse: Miles et Alphinus, rex, roc, regina pcdinus. The same MS. supplies a perfect singularity:
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