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Researches into the history of playing cards; with illustrations of the origin of printing and engraving on wood (1816)

Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858 · leaf 68

An illustration from Researches into the history of playing cards; with illustrations of the origin of printing and engraving on wood, 1816, leaf 68 — 43 had also other objects represented on them at an early period of the fifteenth century. We have many such variations among the speci- … * The word Lansknechte appears to in the tenth century. He accounts them have been sometimes spelt Lanzenknecht, the fifth order of Germans, who had origi- or Lanz-Knecht: its military and German nally but four; the Clergy, the Nobility, origin is sufficiently obvious; it signifies the Citizens,…

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