Recent Changes
These are the most recent reconstructions added or edited:
These are the most recent 100 links added or edited:
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(May 11 2026)
Il gioco di primiera (
Transcription) -- a "motetto a 3 voci, due tenori e basso", composed by Carlo Grossi (1681). Microsoft Word format, transcribed by Thierry Depaulis. In Italian and French. (
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(May 2 2026)
SCA-appropriate Tarot decks (
Equipment) -- Compiled by Hildegarde Stickerin. Note that this focuses more on pretty "art" decks, rather than the more typical everyday decks. Some of these decks are period, some are "period-style". (
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(May 2 2026)
Pre-Gebelin Tarot History (
Equipment,
History) -- A blog focusing on "The Moral Allegory of Tarot". It is a refreshing middle ground: explicitly skeptical about the occult side (much of which was an 18th century invention) but looking seriously at Tarot imagery as allegory. Highly opinionated and intriguing, and contains many images of less-known period decks. (
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(May 2 2026)
Making Seven-Sided Dice (
Equipment) -- A description of how to make a well-constructed pentagonal-prism die, for use with Astrological Tables or Decimal Chess. (The article says that it also applies to
Game of the Four Seasons, but that doesn't appear to be correct based on the Musser-Golladay translation.) (
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(April 28 2026)
Zillions of Games (
Computer Play,
Vendor) -- Arguably the best game engine in existence, at least for period games. It can't do everything, but it can do a lot, and it comes with many period games already implemented. (If you hadn't guessed, I
really like this program.) (
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(April 28 2026)
Playing Cards at Tattershall Arms (
Vendor) -- Tattershall Arms, which mostly deals in period military tack, also apparently sells my favorite Elizabethan card decks. Not 100% period, but among the closest I've found for sale. They really enhance a game... (
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(April 28 2026)
Heather Hall Card Gallery (
Vendor) -- From the front page: "Madame Heather Hall's historic playing cards are recreations of packs from 1650 and before, carefully researched and executed. Each pack design has been created by hand, not computer rendered, and thus has the unique imprint of the artist. Yet each pack is an authentic representation of the original. These cards are appropriate for any historic or modern game, and are the perfect addition to a period gaming box or collection." I have several of her decks, and use them frequently. (
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(April 21 2026)
Is it Period? (
Overview) -- A FAQ put together by Dagonell, listing a lot of games that people often think are period, with a paragraph on whether each one actually is. (
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(April 21 2026)
Vat.lat.5854 (
Facsimile) -- An apparently-anonymous (?), but large and interesting undated manuscript, full of what appears to be chess problems. The hand isn't the easiest to read, but appears to be Latin, and there is a lot of it. (
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(April 19 2026)
The Silliman Etching () -- A 1665 etching of children at play, hosted and annotated by Faire Tyme Toys. (
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(April 18 2026)
The Playe of Chess (
Facsimile) -- Relatively high-resolution images at Digital Bodleian, from Caxton's English translation (c. 1483) of
De ludo scachorum. One of the first books published in English! Not actually very useful from a rules POV, though: this is mostly moral philosophy, using Chess and its pieces as a metaphor. (
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