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ALFONSO X's Book of Games
ALFONSO X's Book of Games
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El Libro de los Juegos (The Book of Games), known also as El Libro de acedrex, dados e tablas (The book of Chess, Dice and Tables) was written in the thirteen century. There was a king, Alfonso X the Wise of Castile, León, and Galicia who had commissioned it, and the book was completed in 1283: ninety-three leaves of parchment, integrating text and miniatures. Several Arabic sources had been compiled, their text translated into Castilian, and illustrations added to ease the understanding. Alfonso X remained known in history as a great king, a poet, a musician, a legislator, and an astrologist. The Alphonsus Crater on the Moon is named after him...
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