Well, it's not about 1367 and Bern. It's about 1324-1330 and Werner von Orseln. And it's a similar feature as with F. Hübsch ... it isn't mentioned by playing card research, at least as far I know. Although van der Linde is an author about games. ... .-) ... But his "15th century" remark ...

Well, it's not about 1367 and Bern. It's about 1324-1330 and Werner von Orseln. And it's a similar feature as with F. Hübsch ... it isn't mentioned by playing card research, at least as far I know. Although van der Linde is an author about games. ... .-) ... But his "15th century" remark m...

Added January 2017: The thread was renamed from "Werner von Orseln 1324-30" to "Werner von Orseln 1324-30 ; theme -1377" with the intention to collect threads, where the topics are earlier than the year 1377 (early playing card documents); not included are themes, which don't re...

hi Mike, It also seems to me that if Milan invented the tarot in the 1420's, and woodcut technology was massively in use there then (as Hind documents in his History of Woodcut Vol. 1) ... What writes Hind about woodcuts in the 1420's? "Ruff" (game) is mentioned somehow in 1414 ... it's br...

In a Druid grave a game with playing stones and 8x12 board (as the Courier chess board) was found. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanway_Game#The_Stanway_Game ... dated c.40-60 A.D "The white and blue glass counters, 13 for each player, were ranged against each other, similar to a Chess opening....

The black and white Death as Cardinal that was posted by mmfilesi has some interesting connections. ... So I see Huck's explanation of Chess and Death as a Bishop who travels across the board diagonally as just perfect. Interesting aspects, Lorredan. Real cardinals got - in the relevant time - ofte...

Possibly Andrea has them, or access to them. Both Vatican 716 and 717 are listed in the 1987 Ferrara catalogue (nos. 12 and 13, pp. 73-75) as having been shown in "Riproduzione". I don't know if that means the whole of both volumes were photographed and bound, or what. I'll see, what I ca...

http://books.google.com/books?id=V04nIBR17qEC&pg=PA47&dq=ruodlieb+schach&hl=en&ei=SizpS-WdBsyi-AbI2IW3Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=kanuth&f=false "Ruodlieb" is a fragmented poem and the chess theme is esti...

http://trionfi.com/0/e/13b/ Padova, preaching against playing Interesting in this context is the Mysner poem (ca. 1450), the first informative text, how Karnöffel might have looked at its begin (Karnöffel first mentioned 1426). An Emperor, a Pope, a Devil and the Karnöffel somehow exist (as it also ...

Hi friends! :) In the "Victoria and Albert Museum Visconti-Sforza Tarocchi" (Kaplan I, 104) is a very strange death, which doesn't appear as apocalypse's knight, but as a cardinal. What do you think? Anyone know another context where death is associated to a cardinal? A cardinal appears i...