Thanx Pen, for 'A Chronological Inexactitude"
This is very naughty of you. I guess it's a good idea for you to have put it in the 'Happy Historians Lounge' where only logged in members can see it. But this won't necessarily keep it from being propagated all over the net

This is a great direction for this thread. Teaching Cards. It is an area I am very fascinated with. Even more than with the standard Tarot. It was while I was studying mnemonic systems (and not yet under the spell of the Tarot) that I read about Thomas Murners book/ card deck - 'Logica Memorativa'. ...

This is really great, Huck - I can't believe how fast you track this stuff down. And how fast you type !!! I've just spent most of my free time for the last 3 days organizing files and then burning back-up DVD's, to free up necessary space on my hard drive. Reading books while I sit and wait 25 minu...

Huck - Another thing I have wanted to post, since your initial volley in this thread, is about the author of this 'Fluch Book', Johann Praetorius. You have an incredible amount of information on him. He himself is a very interesting guy. Also he wrote about witches in a manner, that he believed in t...

Huck - I said "I am still on page one with all this". So I would like to back up to one of your early posts on this thread, where you explained the meaning and history of the old German court cards. http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=646#p9638 Researching the 'Fluch Boo...

Wow Huck !!! I am still on page one with all this. Mein Gott. Hello, Now, these works of Praetorius are not, strictly speaking, Tarot decks. I quess they should be considered 'Oracle" decks. Don't they look like "standard" german card decks adapted to divination ? so isn't it fortune ...

Well, this is just spectacular ! This newn deck you've found by Praetorius, is even more interesting than the one in the book that I started this thread for ! It appears to me, from your research that the 'curse card book' or 'Fluch Book' (If I may call it that http://forum.tarothistory.com/images/s...

Huck, you've done quite a job on this. I just spent the last 2 hrs following your leads. Now I have a lot to say, but it's time to go to work all of a sudden. I'll be back to this forum in 7hrs.
I have also just sent you a PM.

I was rooting around on my external hard drive again, and I found this old German book in my Emblem Book folder. I had downloaded it and filed it away without any proper examination. It turns out to be a card game of some sort. http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/tg-117/start.htm Title is - " Eine nütz...

Pen - I think you're right. It's the register. At least one color is consistently to the right of the black lines. This is so consistent that I was thinking it was some antique idea of a jazzy new way to do things. There is also what I would call a pronounced moire. It's probably not as noticeable o...