> I just gor Bell's The Board Game Book (1979) as a present, and was loking 
> at a game called "Zodiac" that he says is in Alphonso X's book of games. 
> I'm curious if anyone has seen other decriptions of rules for it as I 
> have a couple questions.
> 
> Also are there any translations of Alphonso's MS out there?

I'd be willing to bet that there is a Spanish translation of it. My
library has a bunch of spanish books about Alfonso which aren't
obviously about the Cantigas de Santa Maria, I could flip through
them. I'd be interested in putting a facsimile/transcription on the
web, but I wouldn't do the library book for a while.

Once you have a Spanish translation it isn't that hard to get to
English. Actually the original language isn't that hard compared to
Spanish, you just need vocabulary, but I believe that the words are
well known since folks have translated the Cantigas.

-- g

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