I made some research about Hartmann Schedel, the major author of the Schedel'sche Weltchronik, especially under the aspect, if he had something to do with playing cards. He had.
This one for instance came from him, a card by Master E.S.
In the possession of Hartmann Schedel had been a playing card of Master E. S. (copperplate engraving). He had a graphic collection, perhaps he was the first intensive picture (especially engraving) collector.
http://books.google.com/books?id=oeQxUX ... e&q=geiler kaysersberg kartenspiel&f=false
The following notes, that there were more than one playing card in his collection:
He pasted his pictures into books. Unluckily his original arrangements were often later destroyed.
http://books.google.com/books?id=X7yajG ... q=hartmann schedel spielkarten&f=false
One of the Murner games (that from 1502) presented the emperor, arch bishops and dukes (totally 12 persons) in the same manner as the Chronik at p. 183/184 (there 8 persons at top and 4 shields in the center before the emperor without person).
The deck had 120 cards plus a herold (so 121) in 10x12 structure.
This is - after Etteilla III and the new old Nurremberg deck of 1493 - the 3rd deck, which somehow relates to Hartmann Schedel or his Chronik ... beside the cards, which survived only, cause Hartmann Schedel pasted them in books. Actually I don't know, which cards this were (beside the one given above, which is exclusively mentioned).
http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1FbB5 ... &q&f=false
This presented codex seems to have been in Hartmann Schedels collection ...
It contains picture rows to memorize playing cards at folio 31-35 ... at each page are 6 cards and each page is noted by a short verse, which served as a memory help. A example is given:
Leb, berr und wildes schwein
krutzherr, jeger, krancks mendlin
likely presenting 6 picture, each with a name.
So there should be something like 60, 54 or 48 pictures (?).
The title of the Codex refers to memory techniques: "Gedächtniskunst" by Bernhard Hirschvelder. The author and Hartmann Schedel had been both in Nördlingen in 1473-76, it's believed, that Schedel then got this edition. Schedel had been also book collector and had a proud library of more than 650 books. All this went later (after some time) to the Bavarian library.
http://books.google.com/books?id=v6Bmlw ... en&f=false
I never have seen the playing card pictures of this codex consciously, I wonder, what they are.
Well, this is all very interesting and I hope, I find more.
Hartmann Schedel himself, a picture in his own collection.
Thoughtful of Marco though... 
