The Game of Chess

-ter [than those who] were. And for that reason, one reads that because of his high intellect, the great teacher Anthony Saint Anthony the Great (c. 251–356 CE), a famous monk and "Desert Father." visited him and asked him, saying whether he was sorrowful that he had lost the light of his eyes. Then Didymus Didymus the Blind (c. 313–398 CE), a renowned theologian who lost his sight at age four but became a great scholar. answered: "I wonder if you do not believe that it causes me sorrow." Then Anthony answered him and said: "I wonder that you are sorrowful because you have lost that in the body which you have in common with the animals. For you should consider that you have that in the soul which you have in common with the angels." And therefore Xerxes original: "yces". This refers back to the philosopher mentioned on the previous page as the inventor of chess., who was the inventor of the game—when the fear of death pressed upon him—he forgot all sensible Meaning "perceived by the physical senses." things and gave himself inwardly to his mind and found the game, which is full of innumerable images and likenesses that one finds within it.

A hand-colored ink drawing of a king or emperor seated on a golden-yellow throne. The figure wears a tall gold crown, a green tunic over a long maroon robe, and a decorative gold collar. He holds a golden scepter in his right hand and a golden orb in his left. Above his head is a red decorative flourish extending from the text.