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
List of specimens of cards published by the Society of Bibliophiles
Français, Appendix, No. 1, 333.
List of works relating to cards, Appendix, No. 2, 334.
Locke, John, his opinion of card-playing, 302.
Lookup, the gamester, 173-6.
Loyola, St. Ignatius, wins, miraculously, at billiards, 292.
Lusty Juventus, cards mentioned in, 108.
Lyly, John, represents Cupid and Campaspe playing at cards, 123.
Lyndsay, Sir David, satirises the card-playing of the clergy in
Scotland, about 1535, 110.
Machiavelli on Fortune, 10.
Madden's, Sir F., Privy-purse Expenses of the Princess Mary, daughter
of Henry VIII, 109.
Magasin Pittoresque, article on cards in, 71.
Manners in the time of Charles II, 143;
George II, 176.
Manufacture of cards, extensive in Germany about 1450, 82;
at Venice, 1441;
in England, 131, 166, 272.
Mappa, its ancient meaning, 29.
Margaret, daughter of Henry VII, found playing at cards by her
affianced husband, James IV of Scotland, 98.
Marks of the suits of cards, 206.
Martius, Galeottus, speculates on the meaning of the marks of the
suits, 93.
Mary, the Princess, daughter of Henry VIII, afterwards queen, a
card-player, 109.
Mary, daughter of James II, afterwards queen, a card-player, 146.
Mazarine, Cardinal, played at cards when dying, 310.
Mecken, Israel van, cards supposed to be engraved by, 226.
Meerman's reference to the chronicle of Petit-Jehan de Saintré, 68.
Menestrier's, Père, Bibliothèque curieuse et instructive, 3, 76, 80,
151, 191.
Meré, the Chevalier de, submits certain questions to Pascal respecting
chances at play, 157. [See the treatise on Probability, by Lubbock
and Drinkwater, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge, p. 12; 41-50.]
Merrels, the game of, 13.
Meursius, de Ludis Græcorum, 5.
Millin's description of the Marquis Girolamo's cards, 229.
Morelli's chronicle, 73.
Moxon's cards for carving, 156;
astronomical cards, 157.
Murner's Chartiludium, or logical card-play, 101-5.
Murr's, C. G. von, Journal, 75, 81, 85, 133, 226.
"Murry neet," in Cumberland, 185.
Nabob, the meaning of the word, 22.
Naibi, and Naipes, speculations on the name as applied to cards, 22-9.
Names of the suits of Hindostanee cards, 41-2; of German, Spanish,
Italian, and French cards, 228.
---- given to coat cards, 208, 211, 215.
---- of particular cards, 265-9.
Nash, Beau, his reign at Bath, 171.
Nine of Diamonds,--the Curse of Scotland, 266-8.
Noctes Ambrosianæ., extract from, relative to card-playing, 303.
Ombre, Barrington's conjecture as to the time of its introduction into
England, 145.
---- Pope's description of, frequently praised, 167.
One-and-thirty, a popular game at cards in Ireland and Spain, 115.
Pair of Cards, the old name for a pack, 269.
Pam, the Knave of Clubs, 269.
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