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Evidence for Three Men's Morris

1 pieces of evidence found.

Id DLP.Evidence.2431
Type Contemporary text
Location England
Date 1694-01-01 - 1694-12-31
Rules 3x3 intersecting lines with diagonals of the large square. Three pieces per player.
Content Passage from Hyde's De Ludis Orientalibus: "Apud Anglos vocatur Busghels, forte propter mediam Schematis partem, quae aliquando ita formatur, acsi Modium rotundum referre videretur. Quin & alia habet Nomina sec. numerum frustulorum quibus luditur, eaque a Gallico Nomine corrupta quo tempore Normanni Angliam possiderent: ficut est Marlin: alias three Mens Morals...alias three penny moris,...alias three pin moris...Pro his autem omnibus verius & rectius dicendum est three pin merells...a quo caetera omnia Nomina corrupta sint.
Confidence 100
Source Hyde, T. 1694. De Ludis Orientalibus Libri Duo: Historia Nerdiludii, hoc est Dicere, Trunculorum, cum quibuidam aliis Arabum, Persarum, Indorum, Chinensium, & aliarum Gentium Ludis tam Politicis quam Bellicis, plerumque Europae inauditis, multo minus visis: additis omnium Nominibus in dictarum Gentium Linguis. Ubi etiam Classicorum Graecorum & Latinorum loca quaedam melius quam hactenus factum est explicantur. Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano.

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