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99. Check out Alfonso el Sabio's C13 work (from the Arabic):

Thu Jan 26, 2012, 02:43 PM

Jan 2012

The Libro de los Juegos, ("Book of games&quot , or Libro de acedrex, dados e tablas, ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish) (which) was commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile, Galicia and León and completed in his scriptorium in Toledo in 1283...

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