MikeH wrote (post 1 in this thread) ... One mystery about these decks, or rather some of them, is whether they are minchiate or tarocchi, and if tarocchi, how many cards in the deck On the latter, Dummett in 1993 speculated that there were 69 cards in all; see viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1019&p=15181&hilit...

Schaffhausen, 1405 , "Kartenspil" in Vorträge und Forschungen: Sonderbände Bd. 48 (2004): Oliver Landolt: Der Finanzhaushalt der Stadt Schaffhausen im Spätmittelalter (2004) Landolt, Oliver: Der Finanzhaushalt der Stadt Schaffhausen im Spätmittelalter "schäffzabel, schaffzabelgestain, spilbretgesta...

Joachim, Erich [Hrsg.] Das Marienburger Tresslerbuch der Jahre 1399 - 1409 — Königsberg i. Pr., 1896 https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/joachim1896/0312 ... is a text, from which one doesn't know the reason, what precisely it was written for. It contains a lot of financial activities of the Ge...

... in work ... I wrote at http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=514&p=16357&hilit=schütz#p16357: 2. At p 107 is a long wild story about knight ghosts at the Christburg, which took place in the context of the battle at Tannenberg in July 1410 (then lost by the knight order) (this is som...

Hymen or Hymenaeus (Latin) or Hymenaios (Roman) was according Vollmar, Lexikon der Mythologie, a poor but beautiful young man in Athen, who loved a rich girl and the girl loved him, but he had no chances cause his low position. He disguised as a girl at a celebration of the Eleusian mysteris, when a...

The Hymenaeus is a general figure in some wedding rituals since very old time. The text is of a specific wedding in 1475 and was written for a festival book with many pictures (in this case the wedding was the festival). The wedding pair was Costanzo Sforza (Pesaro) and Camilla "Covella" Marzano d'A...

Strange game with a sort of roulette with cards
"Ein Offen Chartenspil"
Datierung 1651 -1725

http://www.virtuelles-kupferstichkabine ... etail-view
http://www.virtuelles-kupferstichkabinett.de/de/zoom/

Westermanns Monatshefte - Band 10 - Seite 155, 1861 ... contains a note to a playing card deck, made by an artist Bernhart Merkle https://books.google.de/books?id=TpEmAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA155&dq=breitkopf+spielkarten+heinrich+VII&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOqKX3x_rtAhUC-qQKHZDqDAcQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=br...

I wrote ... at 21 Nov 2020, 06:34 Reugelith wrote: ↑ 21 Nov 2020, 05:09 2. But the following I cannot understand it by any means: The Yin Yang (I Ching) symbol in La Papesse (1926): It is so out of place; How it is related with Freemason iconography?. MikeH wrote ... at 26 Dec 2020, (04:19 MEZ, I as...