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File:1400 Bocce (bowling, bowls, boules) with medieval script.jpg

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English: Text from medieval times, showing an image of bocce (bowling, bowls, boules) embedded in a manuscript
  • Image source: Sutherland, A. Ancient Egyptians Played Bowling 5,000 Years Ago. Ancient Pages (22 February 2016). Archived from the original on 17 March 2025.
  • Uploader removed artifacts and did some basic image enhancement in Photoshop Elements.
  • Another source, colleonibocce.com, published the same image and named it "millequattrocento" ("1400") which possibly indicates the estimated date of the original illumination. Article with watermarked image: https://colleonibocce.com/en/the-game/
  • A helpful person on Facebook interpreted the Latin characters as saying:
-tit: ad formicam ut diseat ab ea sapiamus.
Denique non solum per ignoranciam et hebe
tudiniem mentis uticque similis fcs* est
illis: verum et viribus corporis imbecillior.
Date
Source Sutherland, A. (22 February 2016). "Ancient Egyptians Played Bowling 5,000 Years Ago". Ancient Pages.
Author Unknown scribe or illuminator from the middle ages.

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Text from medieval times, showing an image of bocce (bowling, bowls, boules) embedded in a manuscript

Items portrayed in this file

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bocce

inception

31 December 1400

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