The devil's picture-books. A history of playing cards (1890)
Van Rensselaer, John King, Mrs., 1848-1925 · New York : Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 110
ce in 1379 in Europe, and came from Arabiaunder their original name. In the Livre dOr of Ulm, which is a manu-script preserved in that city, there is an ordinance,dated 1397, forbidding all card-playing. These are the only authentic witnesses that canbe brought forward by which the approximate… … Cards of Different Countries. 85 tory deductions in support of his pretensions. Hesays that Brie/e, which is the name that cards bearin his country, means letters, and that the com-mon people do not say, Give me a pack ofcards, but Give me a Spiel-briefe (a pack ofletters), and they do not say, I…
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