The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 274
of Saint-Emineran. I PLAYING-CARDS. Supposed Date of their Invention.—Existed in India in the Twelfth Century.—Their connectionwith the Game of Chess.—Brought into Europe after the Crusades.—First Mention of a Gamewith Cards in 1379.—Cards well known in the Fifteenth Century in Spain, Germany,… … HE origin of playing-cards has for many yearspast formed a special subject of investigationamong scholars and antiquarians. For, howevertrifling the matter may appear in itself, thiscurious point is connected with two of the mostimportant inventions of modern times—engravingand printing. We must…
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