Re: Trionfi.com News ... card divination Danzig 1747

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Johann Anton Janson von Waasberghe, Ratsherr in Danzig, is noted as the writer of the weekly newspaper "Der Freidenker"
The author has name variants:
Waasberghe, Johann Anton Janson von
Janson von Waasberghe, Johann Anton
Waasberg, J. A. J.
Waasberghe, Johann A. von
Waesberghe, Johann Anton Janson von
Wasserberghe, Johann Anton Janson von
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http://www.portraitindex.de/documents/obj/34702554 ... c 1773

There is a Dutch family "van Waesberghe" with a long ancestor research and activities in the printing business in the Netherlands with a "JAN VAN WAESBERGHE (DE OUDE), geb. Antwerpen 1556, ovl./beg. Rotterdam Grote Kerk 25-5-1626" and following strange names in the family with "Jansonius". Johann Anton Janson von Waasberghe, Ratsherr in Danzig" might be well a descendent from this family. Janson isn't a common German name. And the region of Danzig was known for inhabitants which came from Holland and the Netherlands.
https://www.nikhef.nl/~louk/MESKW/gener ... #2713;view
The text "Das Carneval gelehrter Phantasien" (1763) was to our knowledge the first, which noted Cartomancy methodes used by Dutch and German ladies.
https://books.google.de/books?redir_esc ... en&f=false
The text was written by an anonymous, published in Leipzig and Frankfurt, both the most prominent bookprinting locations in Germany (one might suspect, that there is a professionell printer behind it).
It's a strange accident, that we have in the German language region as first early text about cartomancy somebody who knows the oracle habits of German and Dutch ladies and then as a second very early text an author, who lives in Germany, but seems to have come from the Netherlands. Is it possible, that the author of the Carneval text is identical to the unknown texts of 1747 or the known texts of 1769?
The version of 1769 is not totally identical to the version of 1769. The author Waesberghe tells us in the foreword, that he had arranged minor improvements against the work of 1747, so there is not a 100%-security about the cartomancy date of 1747. If Waesberghe had been the author of the carneval text, then he might have had a reason to embed some notes about divination texts in the new editions of his earlier work.

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"Der Freidenker" publications
https://books.google.de/books?id=MQquDw ... ig&f=false

Start of "Der Freidenker"
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Lexikon der vom Jahr 1750 bis 1800 verstorbenen teutschen Schriftsteller, Band 14
author: Johann Georg Meusel
publisher: G. Fleischer, der Jüngere, 1815
https://books.google.de/books?id=n0VFAA ... he&f=false
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This statement says, that there was a not changed edition of the work of 1747 in the year 1756 and a slightly variated version in the year 1769.
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Trionfi.com: News ... card divination

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Dutch text (1726, very early) with "WAARZEGGEN UIT KAARTEN"

Arlequin distelateur of de overgehaalde nouvelles, zynde een werk immers zo dwaas als de maaker zelfs, dewijl het in 52 weekelijkse afdeelingen aan een gezond oordeel zonneklaar vertoont alle de hokken van het dolhuis dezer geheele wereld enz., door een pelgrom van Zutphen die onder den zinspreuk van Virgilius zonder Mecaenas langs Amsterdam den dollen trommel roert om soldaten voor den kwijnenden Parnas te werven
Wilhelmus Swaanenburg
gedrukt voor den autheur, en zyn te bekoomen by de Weduwe A. van Aaltwyk, boekverkoopster#in de Pylsteeg#, 1726 - 424 Seiten
https://books.google.de/books?id=p3xYAA ... en&f=false
page 276
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That's a complex Dutch sentence and I don't claim to understand all of it. But the meaning of "Waarzeggen uit Kaarten" seems to have a clear meaning. There are women, who with the help of card divination, riddle books (whatever this precisely might mean), coffee cups clearly can see something ... and that what they see is not friendly to everybody (?).
The author seems to be a funny writer, Willem van Swanenburg, mainly known only in the Dutch world.
http://docplayer.nl/62076787-Campo-weye ... n-als.html

Originally he was a painter. He had an interest in the teachings of Hermes Trismegistos, so I read. He died 1728, c 50 years old.
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Ross Caldwell noted a card divination scene in his "Origine della Cartomanzia", p. 163-176 of "Il Castello de Tarocchi" ...

Jack the Gyant-killer: a Comi-tragical Farce of One Act. As it is Acted at the New-Theatre in the Hay-Market
publisher (?): J. Roberts, 1730 - 19 Seiten
https://books.google.de/books?id=SwsOAA ... &q&f=false
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Pages 16-19

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1726 Jack the Gyant Killer existed (page 48)
https://books.google.de/books?id=AN4rAQ ... &q&f=false
1708 Jack the Gyant Killer existed according Opie (page 68)
https://books.google.de/books?id=6ixfCA ... 8)&f=false

Compare "News from the Invisible World: The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural c.1660–1832" by Jonathan Barry
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/1 ... 78-3-319-6
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Well, we don't know, if the versions of 1726 and 1708 already had the scene with the card divination.
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Ross Caldwell noted another card divination scene in his "Origine della Cartomanzia", p. 163-176 of "Il Castello de Tarocchi" ...

A comedy "El Lindo Don Diego" written (or published) by Agustin Moreto (1618-1669) in 1662 (the given text was published after the death of the poet in 1676)
https://books.google.de/books?id=CUJhAA ... es&f=false

Agustin Moreto, a popular writer
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agustín_Moreto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agustín_Moreto_y_Cavana

"El Lindo Don Diego", variously presented in modern Spain. The text belongs to the most successful works of the author. The title hero Don Diego ist a negative person, attacked cause of his arrogance.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_lindo_don_Diego

The word "naypes" appears in 2 scenes (Sale Beatriz / Sale Don Tello, y Mosquito) ... the both scenes appear in sequence as shown below. Ross states, that it is in "Atto 3".
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Translation of the major divination scene (Sale Beatriz, first half) is given ...
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=210&p=13961&hilit=moreto#p13961
DOÑA INÉS Where have you been this afternoon?
BEATRIZ My Lady, in some important affair.
DOÑA INÉS What was that?
BEATRIZ I went to throw the cards (Or "have them thrown")
To see if Don Diego will leave you.
And according to the cards
Either the King of Batons lies
Or he won't marry.
DOÑA INÉS Do you give credit to such things?
Don't you see it's nonsense?
BEATRIZ How is that? Would a king lie?
DOÑA INÉS Set aside these vulgarities.
The rest is not translated, but it would be nice to see one. To me it's still is a question, if the text indeed speaks of card divination in the common sense, or if there is another possible solution.

"echar dos naypes" (shall mean "throw the cards") is a critical interpretation.

"El arte de echar las cartas: baraja española" is the title of a modern card divination book, here in the relation to Spanish suits
https://books.google.de/books?id=Jr7to7 ... navlinks_s

But a German-Spanish wordbook of 1831 translates "echar naypes" with "card distribution", not with card divination.
https://books.google.de/books?id=st9DAA ... es&f=false
A Spanish text of 1729 gives the same impression, that is not about card divination.
https://books.google.de/books?id=i2ap_K ... es&f=false

Following "echar naypes" I found another appearance echar los naypes, close to the 1662 date of Moreto.

echar los naypes no es falta
que es acertar por industria
y no diràn, pues los echas
que recoges a figuras

Automatic translation:
throwing the naypes is not a fault
what is hitting by industry
and they will not say, because you throw them
what do you collect figures

A text, which might express the existence of card divination, but - again - not totally sure. The text is from "Ocios de Castalia, en diversos poemas, etc"
by Juan de OVANDO SANTAREN GOMEZ DE LOAYSA and the year of the publication is 1663, so one year behind 1662 and the publication of "El Lindo Don Diego", the other appearance of "echar los naypes". This fact is striking, one can bet on the idea, that Ovando "quoted and reflected" Moreto with his text, as there don't appear much answers on "echar naypes or naipes" in the Google books engine.

Ovando's poem text is a long one, 4 pages. The title is "Cuentanse las habilidades, y sucessos de una Murciana", which translates as "Count the skills, and successes of a Murciana", whereby it stays an open question, what a Murciana is. The wordbook suggests "from Murcia", which is a city in Spain. Then follows a "Satira", which indicates, that there should be something funny in the text.
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Engaños a ojos vistas y diversion de trabajos mundanos fundada en licitos juegos de manos: que contiene noventa y tantas habilidades muy curiosas, sesenta y tantas de naypes ... y otros diferentes juegos, los mas demostrados con sus laminas ...
Pau Minguet i Irol
en la oficina de Domingo Fernandez de Arrojo, 1755 - 176 pages
https://books.google.de/books/about/Eng ... edir_esc=y
Many game names with "Naypes " and "Adivinacion"

Engaños a ojos vistas y diversion de trabajos mundanos fundada en licitos juegos de manos: que contiene todas las diferencias de los cubiletes y otras habilidades muy curiosas demonstradas con diferentes laminas ...
Pau Minguet i Irol
en la imprenta de don Pedro Joseph Alonso y Padilla, 1733 - 102 pages
https://books.google.de/books/about/Eng ... edir_esc=y

List of Worldcat.org of the same title with 11 editions between 1745-2001
https://www.worldcat.org/title/enganos- ... w=true&fq=

Automatic translation of the title ....
'Deception in plain sight, and amusement of worldly works, founded on licit games of hands, containing all the differences of the goblets, and other very curious abilities"

The author:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Minguet_e_Yrol ... German
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Minguet ... Spanish

In the "Indice de los juegos que se contienen en este libro" page 166 ("Index of the games contained in the book") of the 1755 edition we have a lot of game names. Much of them contain the word "naypes" and some of these also contain the word "adivinar".
The same index in the 1733 edition has much less games, only few entries, which relate to naypes, and no game which contains the word "adivinar".
The text of the 1745 edition is not given to me.
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Checking the word "Minguet" at our local forum search engine, I get no result.
Checking "Aeclectic" (another forum) and "Minguet" at Google, I get nothing.
Checking "Tarot" and "Minguet" at Google, I get not much of interest.
Checking "Minguet" and Cartomancia (that's a Spanish expression), I get a good part of Spanish reactions.

So I assume, that the work of Minguet got attention in Spain, but not elsewhere and also not here.

I've sorted the index, as far it is of interest for the cartomancy study. The first part doesn't contain "naypes" or "adivinar" (or similar), which I decorated with some red and green lines to give some orientation in the later part.
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If I didn't miscount, there should be at least 12 texts related to the word "naypes" and "adinivar" ... at least these should be relevant for the cartomancy development, but possibly there are some more. Or, another possibility, my idea, that all these games belong to the Cartomancy genre, is too optimistic. My not really existing Spanish is not good enough for the question.

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I got the warning from Franco, that in all cases in the noted text ("naypes" and "adivinar") the object of the game is "guessing". I also saw "adivinar" translated as "to guess". I know "to guess" as the German "schätzen", which is used in certain life situations to predict an outcome, for instance "the state of the weather in 5 hours", but "schätzen" is in German culture not used in card divination. Spanish has the word "adivinación" and this seems to be the "divination" and I saw it used in Spanish cartomancy context. "adinivar" and "adivinación" sound as if they are related, but it seems they have a difference.
Franco calls the related games "Prestidigitation-games" and I don't know, what this is. The web tells me ...
https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Pre ... on#content

Somebody else offers "Taschenspielerkunst", which google translates "handheld art". Somehow that, what the pagat makes on Tarot card 1.

Added: ... :-) ... Google presents with "handheld art" things, which I don't recognize as "Taschenspielkunst"
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Re: Trionfi.com .... theme -1377

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Allgemeine Geschichte der Hierarchie etc. des deutschrömischen Reichs, der Schweiz und Frankreichs vom Ende des dreyzehnten bis zum Ende des funfzehnten Jahrhunderts, Band 4
Hennerde u. Schrotschke, 1797
https://books.google.de/books?id=KplgAA ... en&f=false
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The passage from a text of 1797 (see above) informs, that another text (Trithem. Chron. Hirsaug. Tom. II. p. 256, related to the cloister Hirsau in Würtemberg, written by Trithemius) has a note, that the Farmers in Württemberg play a "game of 4 Kings" in the year 1367. The text interprets, that this game with 4 Kings should be playing cards (another interpretation would be chess with 4 players, but this isn't meant in this case). This assumption is variously repeated during 19th century in other books. The text is given at the link below, but there are various editions and till now I couldn't find the given place.
https://www.geschichtsquellen.de/werk/4561

I found a text, which is said to be a correct translation of the Trithemius text.
https://books.google.de/books?id=Vn1nDg ... &q&f=false
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This tells, that Graf von Eberstein wanted to attack Graf Eberhard with an army, which was led by three knights, which were called "kings" inside this army. This became known by Eberhard, who quickly collected a greater army and encircled the other. This tried to escape and collected at a stronghold, but had to resign soon, cause their attackers could burn them. Then, a farmer who with many other farmers had helped Eberhard, embarked with a call: "Ha, how nice it is! Look! There come 3 Kings. If there would be a fourth, then we would have a complete card deck."
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Graf Eberhard II. of Württemberg, called "der Greiner" ... yes, he was grandfather-in-law of a Bernabo daughter, since 1380.

The story developed to a poem ... by Ludwig Uhland (a poet of some fame, 1787-1862)
http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Uhland, ... zu+Heimsen

Die drei Könige zu Heimsen (= Heimsheim, close to the cloister Hirnau) .... written in 13x4 lines (a common card deck structure, 52 cards). The last 4 lines read ...
Ein Bäuerlein, das treulich am Feuer mitgefacht,
Lehnt dort an seinem Spieße, nimmt alles wohl in acht:
»Drei Könige zu Heimsen«, so schmollt es, »das ist viel!
Erwischt man noch den vierten, so ist's ein Kartenspiel.«

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Modern research has concluded, that Tritheim and with him also Uhland were wrong and that that the Heimsen story happenend in 1395/1396, not in 1367. In 1367 happened a Wildbad episode, and this also became a poem of Uhland. It's expressed in the article, that Tritheim himself corrected his statement from 1367 to 1395. Tritheim lived about 100 years later, he was not a contemporary writer.
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Austria: österreichischer Universal-Kalender. 1851
Klang, 1851
https://books.google.de/books?id=Nn4AAA ... el&f=false
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The described scene with playing cards took place at 24th of July 1515 during a "congress of Vienna". The congress started July 15 and was finished July 28 / August 2 and it included 2 important weddings. The weddings took place at July 22. When Maximilian married Bianca Maria Sforza in 1493, the playing cards of Bianca Maria were the amusing objects before the wedding. The playing cards were then used in practical play the next day.
At these both weddings the playing card ritual took place two days after the wedding. Some hundred coins with new motifs were produced for this opportunity, made from silver and gold. At the play Maximilian did win nothing, most coins were won by the princesses. The two weddings secured the political relations between Empire and Hungary (similar to the double weddings between Habsburg and Spain 1497).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Congress_of_Vienna
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_Fürstentag
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Re: Trionfi.com: .... old suits in decks of Switzerland

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https://kaisern.flow-akademie.ch/texte/ ... -rumpf.pdf
Zur Entwicklung der Spielkartenfarben in der Schweiz, in Deutschland und in Frankreich
Autor(en): Rumpf, Marianne
Zeitschrift: Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde = Archives suisses destraditions populaires
Band (Jahr): 72 (1976), Heft 1-2 .... pdf since 2018
Persistenter Link: http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-117151
German article with good pictures of suits
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A new (new to myself) old (19th century) Tarocco Siciliano in the WWPCM

http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks07/d05237/d05237.htm
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Tuzzolino (18th century)
http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks07/d05238/d05238.htm
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A deck of 1930 by Concetta Campione
http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks07/d05239/d05239.htm
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Another new old (1780) Tarocco Siciliano, published by IPCS ...
https://i-p-c-s.org/pattern/ps-12.html
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A picture found at pinterest ...
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Exhibition at Palermo 2019
https://www.lasicilia.it/news/cultura/2 ... ntico.html
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Exhibition 2015
https://giocotarocchisiciliani.jimdofre ... n-sicilia/
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