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
Gough's Observations on the Invention of Cards, 22.
Goyraud, Vincent, a French card-manufacturer, of the time of Henry
IV, 249.
Grace's card, 266.
Gregory, Dr., reply of, respecting cards, 77.
Gringonneur, Jac., paints cards in 1393, 76.
Guevara's epistles translated into French by Gutery, 66.
Guilleville's, William de, Pelerinaige de l'Homme, 69.
Güldin Spil, 74.
Gungefu, the name for cards among the Moslems, in Hindostan, 41.
Heineken's Idée générale d'une Collection d'Estampes, 15, 27, 82,
228.
Helgen, a name given to woodcuts in Suabia, 87.
Heller's History of Wood-engraving cited, 91, 93.
Henry VII, a card-player, 98.
Henry VIII, Act of Parliament against card-playing, 108.
Henry, Prince of Wales, son of James I, a card-player, 125.
Heraldic cards, 150-2.
Herrera relates that Montezuma took pleasure in seeing the Spanish
soldiers play at cards, 106.
Hieroglyphics, 6.
Hindostanee cards, 33-52.
Historical cards, relating to the Popish plot, and the death of Sir
E. Godfrey, 153-5.
Homer, his notice of the games of Petteia and Astragali, 12.
Houbigant's Cartes Royales, 257.
Hoyle, Edmond, his treatise on Whist, 162, 170.
Hume, David, apostrophised as a whist-player, 160.
Hycke-Scorner, cards mentioned in, 108.
Hyde, Dr. T., De ludis orientalibus, 16, 265.
Ingilby, Sir Wm., his examination on the trial, Lord De Ros _versus_
Cumming, 295.
Ingold, a Dominican friar, author of the Güldin Spil, 74.
Injunctions to the clergy, 1559, against card-playing, 121.
Interpolations of the word Cartes, in old MSS., 67-71.
Isis, the horned, the original of the Virgin with the crescent on her
head, 5.
Italian names of the suits of French cards, 207.
Jackanapes, the probable etymology of the word, 231-5.
Jack at Warts--Jack o'Hearts, 235.
James IV of Scotland a card-player, 98.
James I of England a card-player, 126.
Jansen's Essai sur l'Origine de la Gravure, 67.
Jeux de Cartes, Barrington's opinion of the signification of the term,
78.
Johanneau, Eloi, on the etymology of Naipes, and the invention of
cards, 27-30.
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, his opinion of card-playing, 302.
Jones, Sir Wm., on Chess, 15-17.
Jonson, Ben, his device for Abel Drugger's sign, 6.
Juggling tricks with cards, 118.
Junius, F., his explanation of the word Quartes, 22.
Justus, Pascasius, his work on gaming, 115, 174, 271.
Kartenmacher at Augsburg in 1418, 81;
at Ulm, 82.
Knave, the original meaning of the word, 231.
Lassale, Antoine de, author of the Chronicle of Jehan de Saintré, 68.
Latrunculi, 12.
Leber's, M. C., Etudes Historiques sur les Cartes à Jouer, 8, 23, 73,
85, 103, 132, 155, 211-13, 217, 220, 240-9.
Le Normand, Mlle., the Parisian fortune-teller, 324.
Leo X, a trick of his at cards, 174.
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