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Inside The Alfonso X Manuscript.

About the video:

A video showing the insides of the Alfonso X manuscript facsimile. Only several pages are viewed as the total pages in the manuscript amounts to 98 pages.

In 1283 Libros del Axedrez dados y tablas (Book of Chess and other games) was written for King Alfonso X (1221-1284), King of Castile. It was the first encyclopedia of games in European literature. The first of the 7 parts of the Alfonso manuscript is devoted wholly to chess, and contains 103 problems. It also includes descriptions of several chess variants. (Source: Bill Wall) .

Youtube video from Xposthmous.

March 13, 2008 Posted by n8ux | Art, Chess, Education, History, Video, Writing | | No Comments Yet