[260] 'Deutsche Piquet-Karten aus den XV Iahrhunderte mit Trappola Blattern.' The use of the word Trappola by writers on the history of playing cards, without clearly explaining the sense in which they employ it, leads to much confusion. It properly signifies a game; which may be played with any kind of numeral cards consisting of four suits, whatever the marks may be. Breitkopf seems here to apply the term "Trappola Blattern" to cards which have Swords, Batons, Cups, and Money as the marks of the suits; in the same manner as the cards now in common use in this country are called by writers on the subject, French Piquet cards. It is never, however, supposed that the game depends in the least on the marks of the suits. [261] From the time of the marriage of Joanna's sister, Catherine of Arragon, with Arthur, Prince of Wales, till about the time of her separation from his brother, Henry VIII, the pomegranate was frequently introduced as an ornament in the royal decorations and furniture of the English court. [262] Those cards were purchased of Messrs. Smith, of Lisle street, who also supplied the Museum with the two sets of old Italian engravings, usually called Tarocchi cards. [263] "Die Karte ist nach Wälscher Art in SPADE, COPPE, DANARI, (die aber hier als Granatäpfel vorgestellt sind,) und BASTONI getheilet."--Von Murr, Journal zur Kunstgeschicht, ii^{er.} Theil, s. 200. [264] Breitkopf improperly calls those cards "_Trappolier-Karte_,"--Trappola cards. Aretine, in his 'Carte Parlanti,' makes a distinction between the game of Trappola, and that played with Tarocchi cards. [265] "Il y a dans chaque couleur un roi, un officier supérieur ou capitaine nommé _Ober_, et un bas-officier, appelé _Unter_. On appelle encore de nos jours dans l'empire, où les mots français ne sont pas si en vogue, les officiers supérieurs _oberleute_, et les bas-officiers _unterleute_. Les Français ont substitué à la place de l'officier une _dame_, et à la place des bas-officiers des _valets_, ou des braves, comme Bullet les nomme. Le bas-officier des glands est nommé en Allemagne, _der grosze mentzel_, et celui de vert, _der kleine mentzel_; enfin, l'as porte le nom de _daus_."--Heineken, Idée générale d'une Collection complète d'Estampes, p. 239. [266] "SOTA. La tercera figura, que tiènen los naipes, la qual representa el infante, ò soldado. Dixose de la voz Italiana _soto_, que vale debaxo, porque vá despues de las figuras de Rey, y Caballo, que le son superiores."--In a superficial paper on old playing-cards, by the baron de Reiffenberg, printed in the 'Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique,' No. 10, 1847, the Sota is transformed into a female: "Dans les jeux de cartes espagnols, la dame et le valet étaient remplacés par le _cavallo_ et la _sota_, le cavalier et _la fille_."