Just found another fight of the mythological Pygmies versus the mighty cranes.

BnF, Fr. 22971, fol. 47r c. 1480 (gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...)

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It looks like the game is still in the early stages. A lot of pawn moves, but I think that might have been more common in #medieval #chess.
And the engine says that white as a tiny bit of an advantage.

What a cute #dragon in the #margins of the #medieval #manuscript BnF Fr. 2810 from 1410/1412, which belonged to John the Fearless.

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I just found this beautiful illustration of "Pygmies" going to war with the cranes in the #Cosmographia by #SebastianMünster from 1550.
He would be one of the last persons to follow the #medieval tradition regarding the "Pygmies".

#history #books

Two #chess players in the beautifully illustrated #manuscript MS. Bodl. 264. (fol. 145v). Their game seems to be as interesting as the current #chessworldchampionchip.

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This is one of my favorite illustrations in the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel of 1493. It shows a small man fighting storks. They belong to the monstrous humanoids that are said to inhabit the farthest corners of the world.
Colorized #incunabulum: shorturl.at/OWruA #history #medieval