Thanks for the translations. Sardinia needs more research. Has Pratesi written anything about Corsica?

Thanks for translating Porcellotti's poems. It's curious that Minucci wrote about the cutthroat game and doesn't even mention the partnership game when the latter was clearly the dominant form before and after his generation. Perhaps Dummett was right when he guessed that it may have been temporaril...

Minchiate is a complicated game, especially when it comes to distributing the cards and scoring. Here are some recent videos explaining how it is played. The cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-KJZLJ7Vgs Hand 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ6AFFdnMMk Hand 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

The second Turfan card is the 80 Myriad and depicts a character from the Water Margin , a novel from the early 16th century that's part of a longer story cycle. This cycle, however, is very loosely based on an actual rebellion that happened in the twelfth century . That renders any eleventh century ...

Turfan card, estimated to be from c1100, alternatively from c1400 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Ming_Dynasty_playing_card%2C_c._1400.jpg/160px-Ming_Dynasty_playing_card%2C_c._1400.jpg Depaulis alerted Ross about the history behind this card . I agree with Depaulis that t...

In regards to the Liechtenstein deck now in the Louvre, who are the previous owners of it? Huck mentioned in another thread of Butsch of Augsburg in the 19th century, a Dr. Roth, and the Rothschilds, but who is this Liechtenstein that Dummett wrote of on page 15 of GoT?

The circle in the republican era card is not purely yellow. There's a dab of green above, below, to the right of, and left of Fortuna. On the back of the cards is the coat of arms of the Centurione families , but it is mirrored. Going through wikicommons , I noticed that the most common motif of For...

The image quality makes it hard to inspect but Hoffman and Dietrich described them as "Meermännern". Doesn't the left one have breasts? They may have been thrown off by her cropped hair.

https://www.cartorama.de/shop/kataloge/1569400253.pdf Advertisement for an 98-cards-Ganellini deck from Faustino Solesio in the Cartorama catalog 169 Faustino Solesio, Genova. 97/98 (Ace of Coins missing). Color lith., 98x58 mm, square corners, no index mark. Backs: Plaid, bluish green and brown. C...

The Rubaiyat-e-Ganjifa may have been translated before but I'm not sure where I can find it. From what I can recall, there are no rules mentioned. It's simply a long poem describing each card which is exactly like the Mughal Ganjifa but the two coin suits have swapped groups. In Iran, white coins we...