Franco Pratesi wrote, MikeH translated: My study of the history of card games has proceeded intermittently, with long pauses; at least twice, I thought I had closed research in the sector forever, and then with some surprise I found myself starting again. Lately, this "phenomenon" has occu...

This seems to be a rather good (modern) article .... https://turfan.bbaw.de/projekt/index.html#1 It contains this map ... https://turfan.bbaw.de/bilder/Sprachenkartekleinneu.gif enlarged .... https://turfan.bbaw.de/bilder/Karte_gr.gif One can detect Turfan in the big group in the upper right corner,...

There is another report , which has a "Tempel 10" with a "Nordterrasse" ... Bericht über archäologische Arbeiten in Idikutschari und Umgebung im Winter 1902-1903 : vol.1 Report on Archaeological Work in Idikutshari and Surrounds in the Winter 1902-1903 : vol.1 ... http://dsr.nii....

Deutsche Minchiate Regeln, Dresden 1798 https://www.tarock.info/Minchiatta.htm Rules of Minchiate, page 217 Die Kunst die Welt erlaubt mitzunehmen in den verschiedenen Arten der Spiele, so in Gesellschaften höhern Standes, besonders in der Kais. Kön. Residenzstadt Wien üblich sind bey Johann Eberhar...

I found this .... https://iiif.crossasia.org/s/turfan/manifests/252/c/4268 .... (with picture of the card) Metadata Titel : Chinesische Spielkarte Identifier : A 493 / 1885728 / IB 6061 Datum : 1904-1905 Ort : Sängim: Nord-Terrasse Tempel 10 Schlagwörter / Material : Papier Expedition / Sammlung : 2...

https://books.google.de/books?id=Cz3EDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA95&dq=turfan%20sangim&hl=de&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q=turfan%20sangim&f=false “Masters” and “Natives”: Digging the Others’ Past by Svetlana Gorshenina, Philippe Bornet, Michel E. Fuchs, Claude Rapin...

hm ... do we have a picture of this second playing card from Turfan ? A "c1100" might be well a 12th century date, as far I know. In Germany we use "ca. 1100" and it means "circa 1100" or "around 1100". Is it claimed, that both playing cards from Turfan were f...

Ross in 2020 wrote anote about .... https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1841&p=22647&hilit=Hoshour#p22647 Ben Hoshour's just published Origins of the Minor Arcana: A Guidebook to the Ancestral Influences that Shaped the Tarot's Minor Arcana (IngramSpark, 2020) It has now ...

Thank you for your infomation and for your opinion, and nice to meet you again, Ludophone. The argumentation for the c1100 date isn't considered, and this should be done. Well, it doesn't look easy to understand the situation of Tufan in 1100. German Turfan expeditions, German wikipedia text https:/...

Playing Cards: One of the Earliest Forms of Block Printing - 1007 to 1072 Quote of "(Carter, Invention of Printing in China 2nd ed [1955] 184)" https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=17 https://historyofinformation.com/images/0023a%20Large.jpg Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/w...