... ... that's fine ... "he lost at 13th of September (1413 ? 1414 ?) at Docmersfeld in card games 20 shilling 11 pence" or something similar, I would assume, but Ross can it do better.robert wrote:I have the book.
I'll try to scan the pages tonight.. but generally.. here is an example...
Item in xiii die Septembris perdebat apud Docmersfeld a cardys xx s. xl d.
So Mortimer was at Docmersfeld (location or person ?) at 13th September (1413 ? 1414 ?) and he lost something about 20 shilling (by such data we can possibly evaluate, how high they played occasionally).
Well ... such stupid sentences make playing card history and we must know them, otherwise there's no progress .... ... even if we only learn, that there are only stupid sentences. When we know them and tell them others, the general overview becomes better and future ways to search this book, wrong expectations, false theories etc. are spared ... at least in this point.
That changes about 45 years of English playing card history considerably ... that's not a bad deal.
I for instance learn, that the English way to count money "s. d." for "shilling and pence" (if this is correct interpreted) is similar to "soldi and denari" in Italy. And the sign for pound is written like an "L" and in Italy the currency above Soldi is "Lira", another L.
Which is somehow confirmed in this source, where it is said, that "L" stands for Libra, an old Roman pound.