The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 296
tion more or less faithful of the ancient game of chess. Reckoning from the fifteenth century, we meet with cards in everyenumeration of games of chance ; we find them also proscribed andcondemned in ecclesiastical and royal ordinances. The clergy, too, raisedtheir voices against them ; but these… … Figs. 204 and 205.—Jean Dunois, King Alexander, Julius Csesar, King Arthur, Charles the Great, and Godefroide Bouillon. From ancient coloured Wood-Engravings; prints analogous to the first Playing-Cards of theFifteenth Century. (Bibl. Imp., Paris, Department of Manuscripts.) appeared in the…
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