At ....
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The "Deutsches Zeitungsportal" with the webpage ....
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper/ .... allows the search of specific keywords in a large collection of historical newspapers in Germany from 1671 to 1994.
One article with " Minchiate" ... only 1 result, and this is an article about playing card history (1907)
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothe ... =Minchiate
Tarot keywords:
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothe ... ery=tarock .... oldest is from 1764 - Tarock, totally 3138 results
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothe ... uery=taroc .... oldest is from 1768 - Taroc, totally 304 results
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothe ... uery=tarok .... oldest is from 1768 - Tarok, totally 1568 results
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothe ... uery=tarot .... oldest is from 1784 - Tarot, totally 203 results
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothe ... ry=Tarrock .... oldest in 1818 .... Tarrock, totally 241 results
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothe ... ry=taroque .... oldest is from 1832 - Taroque, totally 6 results
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothe ... ery=Tarrok .... oldest is from 1839 - Tarrok ,totally 143 results
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothe ... ry=Tarocco ..... oldest is from 1840 - Tarocco, totally 5 results
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothe ... y=Tarocchi .... oldest is from 1860 - Tarocchi, totally 26 results
Keyword Skat - Skat is the most famous German card game. One might expect, that Skat woud reach the highest number of all noted card games in the newspapers.
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothe ... query=Skat+
Skat has 52,348 results, however, some of these results are based on an error. The terminus "Stat" (in modern German "Staat", in English "state") in some versions is interpreted as "Skat" and this is definitely wrong. Especially "Schwäbischer Merkur, mit Schwäbischer Kronik und Handelszeitung : Süddeutsche Zeitung" is connected to this error and this probably 1339 times.
So one should suspect for this system, that it is not free of errors.
I move this collection to the thread "collection Germany/Austria/Switzerland"
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=821
It should be of some use there.
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The oldest of the results is part of a funny poem (1764) ....
from Seite 2:
Wie Gift soll ich die Spiele hassen,
Die Eingeweide meiner Cassen
Nie bey Tarock und Lomber lassen:
Wie gern geh ich das ein!
Doch wie ein Drach mein Geld bewachen,
Mein Zimmer mir zur Wüste machen,
Nie bey Musick und Weine lachen?
Das, Vetter, kann nicht seyn.
1764 Bonn: funny poem
1764 Bonn: funny note, that in a marriage the 3rd Tarock player is missing
1772 Gülich (= Jülich) "Tarock" is a name, "Hofcammerath Tarock von Würzburg"
1782 Köln (Cologne): "On trouve aussi chez la mème, des cartes fines à jouer, tant ordinaires que pour le Tarock; qu'il a recues en commission & qu'il laisser à prix très raisonnable." French report about cities in Germany.
1796 Badische Lande: "Berliner Spiel Almanach, enthaltend die neuste Anweißung zur gründlichen Erlernung des Wist, l'Hombre, Qusdrille, Quadrille, Tarock, Kaßino ic. v. J. Cäsar". Announcement for a teaching book to play card games.
1796 1796 1796 1796 (Karlsruhe, Badische Lande, Karlsruhe, Badische Lande): 4 times the same announcement as above
1797 Gülich (= Jülich): "Carl Wespin wohnhaft bei Frau Wittib Zanders auf dem Hundsrücken Lit L. A. 427. macht andurch bekannt, daß in seiner dahier neu errichteten Karten Fabrike, alle Gattungen Spielkarten, mit ein auch zwei Köpfen, sowohl in Tarock als kleinen, von geringer Sorte bis zur ganz Feinen in Kupferstich in den billigsten Preise» zu haben sind"
Carl Wespin has a playing card fabrication, and wishes to sell playing card decks.
Confirmation for Wespin:
https://frauen-und-geschichte.de/websit ... 2306271620
http://www.spielkarten-sammlung.de/seite%203.htm
mentioned by Kaplan II, p. 216
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The next "Tarock" appears in 1816(1),1818(1),1819(2),1821(2),1822(1),1826(1,)1829(1) etc.
1-100: 1764-1859
101-200: 1859-1884
201-300: 1884-1896
301-400: 1896-1902
401-500: 1902-1907
501-1000: 1907-1921 ... the 1000th note is about a successful racing horse with the name Tarock.