Leaf from ""Histoire d'Outre Mer"": Initial A with the Count of Edessa and the Prince of Antioch Playing Dice
We usually associate playing games with relaxation and fun, but in certain contexts, they can be deadly serious. In this image, the count of Edessa and the prince of Antioch, Crusade leaders in twelfth-century Syria, use game playing as an act of defiance, for they sit in thei...
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Gordon of Buthlaw, mid 19th century; Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, London, 1861, no. CLIV; Sale, Sotheby's, London, March 16, 1903, lot 689; purchased by Léon Gruel, Paris, March 16, 1903 [1]; puchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Gruel and Engelmann bookplate 'No 138'
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