Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing CardsChatto, William Andrew
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Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards
Chatto, William Andrew
Playing cards -- History
Barrington's, the Hon. D., Observations on the Antiquity of
Card-playing in England, 18, 46, 65, 107, 132, 145, 160.
Barrois, J., on the proper meaning of the name Gringonneur, 76.
Bartsch's Peintre-Graveur, 200, 223.
Basset, prohibited by Louis XIV, 147.
Battle of the Reed Swire, 113.
Bells, an ornament of dress, 240.
--Leber's researches on the subject, 240-5.
Bernardin, St., his address to the citizens of Bologna, 90.
Bibliophiles Français, specimens of cards published by, 190, 201,
236, 250-3.
Blacksmith's coat of arms, 6.
Bonds, voluntary, to abstain from gaming, 79.
Bras-de-fer, his moral exposition of a pack of cards, 320, 324.
Brietkopf's Inquiry into the Origin of Playing Cards, 7, 26, 225,
227, 239.
Briefe, the German name for cards, 26.
Briefmaler, 84.
Brunet, the younger, his note prefixed to a 'Notice Bibliographique
sur les Cartes à jouer,' 100, 326.
Bullet's Recherches Historiques sur les Cartes à jouer, 27-8.
Buoninsegni's, Father Thomas, Discorso del Giuoco, 90.
Bussi's History of Viterbo, 23, 73.
Cabinet du Roi de France, cited, 111.
Capability of cards as a subject of disquisition, 2.
Capistran, John, his discourse against gaming at Nuremberg in 1452, 91.
Card-playing at Bologna in 1423, 90.
---- in Germany in the fifteenth century, 92.
Card-playing common in England as a Christmas game about 1484, 97.
---- in Scotland, 98, 110, 113.
---- at Rhodes in 1498, 99-100.
---- in Ireland and Spain, about 1590, 114-15.
---- in the reign of James I, 125.
---- in the reign of Charles II, 146-9.
---- in the reign of Queen Anne, 165.
---- in the reign of George II, 170-80.
---- in the reign of George III, 186.
Cards.--Hindostanee, 32-50.
---- Chinese, 55-9.
---- old stencilled, in the British Museum, 88.
---- Heraldic, 150.
Historical, 153.
Mathematical, 155.
For carving, 156.
Satirical, 157-9.
---- old painted, ascribed to Gringonneur, 195-8.
---- Dr. Stukeley's, 205.
---- old French, 211, 214.
---- old German, engraved on copper, 220-6.
---- engraved on copper, ascribed to Israel van Mecken, 226.
---- German, engraved on wood, 1511, 236.
---- French, of the time of Henry IV, 250.
---- Portuguese, of the date 1693, 251.
---- French Republican, 253-6.
---- American, 256.
Caricatures in the reign of George II, 181.
Cartas (Epistolæ) from Carthage, 26.
Cartes, chartæ, cards, probable etymology of, 20, 22.
Carving, cards teaching the art, 156.
Castillo's, Diego del, Satyra contra los Tahures, 115.
Catharine of Arragon, wife of Henry VIII, a card-player, 107.
Cervantes' Comical History of Rinconete and Cortadillo, 115.
Charta, paper, probable etymology of, 24.
Chaturanga, the Hindostanee name for chess, 16.
Cheating at cards, trial on the subject, 296.
Chess, said to have been invented by an Indian, 13.
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