Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing CardsChatto, William Andrew
History
Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards
Chatto, William Andrew
Playing cards -- History
4. Copies of the set of fifty old Italian engravings, usually called
Tarocchi. Supposed date, 1470.
5. Ten plates, containing a set of fifty-two circular cards, with the
mark T. W., and having Hares, Parroquets, Pinks, and Columbines as the
marks of the suits. Supposed date, 1477.
6. Four cards of a pack engraved on copper at Venice in 1491.
7. Ten plates, containing forty cards, with Human Figures, Bears and
Lions, Deer, and Birds as the marks of the suits. From the originals,
ascribed to the "Master of 1466," formerly in the possession of Mr. T.
Wilson, but now in the Bibliothèque du Roi.
8. Four plates, containing thirty-six cards of a German pack of
fifty-two, engraved on wood, of the date 1511.
9. A plate, containing sixteen Portuguese cards, of the date 1693.
10. A plate, containing twelve French cards, engraved by Vincent
Goyraud, of the time of Henry IV.
11. A plate, containing sixteen French cards, of the time of Louis XIII.
12. A plate, containing twelve cards of a Republican pack, engraved in
France about 1793.
13. A plate, containing twelve cards of another Republican pack,
engraved in France about the same period as the preceding.
The originals of all the specimens, with the exception of those
mentioned under No. 3, are preserved in the Bibliothèque du Roi.
No. 2.
_A List of the principal Works either directly relating to Cards,
or incidentally treating of the Game. From the 'Jeux de Cartes
Tarots et de Cartes Numérales,' with many additions._
Le Ménagier de Paris: traité de morale et d'économie domestique,
composé, vers 1393, par un Bourgeois Parisien. Publié pour la première
fois par la Société des Bibliophiles Français. 8vo, Paris, 1848.
Ingold, Das Güldin Spil. Folio, Augsburg, 1472.
Baptista Platina, de Honesta Voluptate. 4to, Venice, 1475.
Galeottus Martius, de Doctrina promiscua. About 1490.
R. Maphei Volaterrani Commentaria Urbana. 1506.
Logica Memorativa: Chartiludium logice, auctore Thoma Murner. 4to,
Cracoviæ, 1507. Strasburg, 1509. Reprinted at Paris. 8vo, 1629.
Philesii Vosgesigenæ Grammatica figurata. 4to, 1509.
Speculum Fatuorum, auctore Joanne Geiler de Kiesersberg, concionatore
Argentorense. Sect. lxxvii, Lusorum turba. 4to, Strasburg, 1511.
Chartiludium institute summarie, vel institutiones Justiniani; doctore
Thoma Murner, memorante et ludente. 4to, Argentinæ, 1518.
Dialogi omnes Hadriani Barlandi. 8vo, Paris, 1542.
Ludus Chartarum, Dialogus, auctore Ludovico Vives. 1545.
Raggionamiento del divino Pietro Aretino, nel quale si parla del
giuoco, con moralità piacevole. 8vo, about 1545. Reprinted in 1589 and
1651.
Le Mépris et le Contemnement de tous les Jeux de Sort, par Ol. Gouyn.
8vo, Paris, 1550.
Cento Giuochi liberali e d'ingegno, da Innocentio Ringhieri ritrovati.
4to, Bologna, 1551.
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