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 296
e LandsJmecht, or lansquenet (Fig. 220), thedistinctive term of the soldier. We are speaking here only of the earliest German cards, for, after acertain date, the essential form and emblematical rules of the pack dependedon nothing but the fancy and whim of the maker or the engraver. Thefigures… … Pig. 220.—The Two of a Pack of German Lans- Pig. 221.—Card from a Game of Logic, invented quenet Cards. by Th. Murner, and copied from his Charti- (JBibl. Imp. of Paris.) ludium Logices. (Cracow, 1507.) There are also several sets of cards with five suits (of fourteen cards each),among others those…
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