NO :) . 1) communément = commonly http://www.wordreference.com/fren/commun%C3%A9ment 2) If the word is "communément", must necessarily take time in use. Ah, I understand what you mean ... ok. The document speaks of Avignon. Ross searched earlier for an explanation, that Taraux might have ...

ROSS: The story of the 1505 reference begins in 1955, when Hyacinthe Chobaut published an article "Les maître-cartiers d'Avignon". He noted that there was a reference to "cartes communément appelées taraux" (cards colloquially known as taraux) in a record there. Chobaut neglecte...

Hi mmfilesi I guess it could be the first submitted name for cards, but as in all those cases things develope very personaly. People got the cards by accidant, because somebody copied it somewhere, but got no informations about it, or chose another name, cause this name was to strange for the simpl...

As far I understand Simon Wintle (that's wopc), he thinks, that this are backsides. That's, what I think also. 18 different backsides for 18 different decks. So it's rather superfluous to search a deck in it. He also made cards with Mexican backside motifs, likely he had customers, which preferred t...

... :-) ... it seems, they fear for their copyright. It seems to be 18 cards. How do they come to the opinion, that it is of 16th century? Here's the same date and the same name mentioned: http://www.wopc.co.uk/honduras/index.html Cards from Peru http://www.wopc.co.uk/peru/rimac/index.html Another n...

Occasionally one finds notes of gambling activities of popes ... not always with cards. Somehow one should collect them. ***************************** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_on_papal_elections Here is a wikipedia article with "Gambling on papal elections" ... somehow one get...

A second "strange death case" in about the same time of the assumed death of (September 1505) appears in the biography of Ercole Bentivoglio, son of Sante, who once ruled in Bologna (- 1464), and of Ginevra, later wife of Giovanni di Bentivoglio, new ruler in Bologna. Ginevra was daughter ...

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... ... However, I'm not sure, if such restorations forge or improve the original ...

Strozzi and Eroticon There's a pdf-file, which you get offered, if you type "domicilla Rangoni" in the Google search engine. According this it seems to suggested, that the Eroticon was ready around 1467, and he died 30th of August 1505 (the alternative "Oktober 1515" seems not me...

It seems plausible, that Tito Vespasiano Strozzi (possibly) went to Florence for his late years, leaving Ferrara, which had changed his ruler in 1505, behind and giving his job in Ferrara (a sort of president to the 12 judges) his son Ercole. The Strozzi had been exiled for long years from Florence ...