Something about the history of playing card research. Rosenfeld, Hellmut (1907-1993)  Bibliothekar, Germanist, Volkskundler, Hochschullehrer, Prof. Worldcat has 550 publications of him. Only some of them relate to playing cards The IPCS (International Playing Card Society) was founded 1972 in London...

We got a note of a new Italian Tarocchi book. It appeared October 2020. "Tarocchi piemontesi. La civiltà del gioco" by Franco Ressa https://img.ibs.it/images/9788854941144_0_221_0_75.jpg https://www.ibs.it/tarocchi-piemontesi-civilta-del-gioco-libro-franco-ressa/e/9788854941144 Description I giovani...

http://digital.onb.ac.at/OnbViewer/viewer.faces?doc=ABO_%2BZ197004707 http://a.trionfi.eu/p/karn-22.jpg http://a.trionfi.eu/p/karn-21.jpg Johann Geiler von Kayserberg https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Geiler_von_Kaysersberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Geiler_von_Kaysersberg Keyserspiel (...

vh0610 In this light: Does anyone know where the original dating of 1426/27 stems from? What was the claimed source? That would help for the phone call. The works, which were done in Nördlingen 1795-1933 I've collected at ... http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=345&start=440#p23562 Th...

Grimm, Wörterbuch https://woerterbuchnetz.de/?sigle=DWB&lemma=call_wbgui_py_from_form#1 ... search for "Karneval" 2KARNEVAL, m. und n. fasching, fastnacht, it. carnevale, carnovale, s. Diez 393 (2, 17). man schreibt auch karnaval nach dem franz. carnaval: das närrische hüpfende lebenskarnaval. J. Pa...

I've reworked my thesis to the 2 different writing forms. It should be a source of 1510 and a source of 1502. So this doesn't change much in the perspective of 1426.

Your hypothesis to carneval and Karnöffel I would regard as hopeless.

Now question is: what is the earliest reference to Karnöffel, if it is not this one? I think it would be Mysner's poem. It does not have a precise date, but the specialists say it is not far from 1450. Augsburg 1446 ... close to Nördlingen. Balgau 1448 ... in the Alsace. Mysner is estimated to 1450...

Good work with the register ... You've mentioned details, which I don't remember to have seen in the other versions. Point one: The other earlier reports note Karnüflen (Beyschlag 1795, Müller 1817, both in connection to a "1502") and Karmüflen (Müller 1824, Beyschlag-2 1851). The report of 1933 giv...

For the case of "Karnöffel in Nördlingen" one first has to understand the arguments of Jonas Richter, who at the moment has only limited time. This shall be better in the second half of April, as he had told me. For the moment one can study the 7 sources ... all collected by myself at ... http://for...

Karníffeln , verb. reg. act. welches nur in den niedrigen Sprecharten, besonders Niederdeutschlandes üblich ist, mit der Faust durchprügeln oder derb stoßen. Nieders. karnüffeln, knüffeln , Engl. to knubble , Dän. karnifle , Schwed. karnifla . Frisch leitet es auf eine sonderbare Art von dem Franz....