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The Squares

Every square of the only surviving board, with its picture, its verses in Spanish and Italian with an English rendering, the rule it imposes, what Barros says about it, and what historians have found. Choose an edition to see where the texts differ.

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Click any square on the board, or choose one below. Open the full-resolution photograph (2594 × 3402 px). Board © The Trustees of the British Museum.

The squares

Around the track