Book is The Compleat Gamester, which contains rules for games commonly played at that period.

  • some_random_nick@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    That should be a “long s”. From the wiki: The minuscule form ſ, called the long s, developed in the early medieval period, within the Visigothic and Carolingian hands, with predecessors in the half-uncial and cursive scripts of Late Antiquity. It remained standard in western writing throughout the medieval period and was adopted in early printing with movable types. It existed alongside minuscule “round” or “short” s, which were at the time only used at the end of words.

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      23 hours ago

      Ahh, short s at the end of words…that makes sense!