Ross G Caldwell
Peccat mortaliter, qui interrogat, vel vult interrogare praestigiatores seu divinatores circa furtum, vel quippam aliud secretum: aut idipsum sortibus, aleis, chartis, libris cribro vel astrolabio tentat cognoscere...
"He sins mortally who asks, or is willing to ask, charlatans or diviners about a lost object or some other secret: or else tries to know the same thing by lots, rolling dice, cards, books, a riddle or an astrolabe..."
[Martin de Azpilcueta, "Enchiridion sive Manuale Confessariorum et Poenitentium" (Paris, François Huby, 1620): c. XI, note 30 (p. 191)].
As the title indicates, this is a manual for confessors (priests) and penitents.
Martin de Azpilcueta died in 1586, and this book is a translation into Latin of an original Spanish edition from 1556 "Compendio del Manual de Confessores". It remains to be seen if the Spanish edition speaks of cards, and how. If you are near a library that has it, please check - chapter XI, note (or paragraph) 30. It would be interesting to know if he uses the Spanish term "naipes".
This entry joins Pierre Gregoire's 1612 gloss on an early council anathema, mentioning the use of phylacteries and "chartas" -
[1612 - "chartas": The canonist Pierre Gregoire (1540-1617) in his
compendium of papal and conciliar pronouncements and Church
law "Juris Pontifici" (Lyon, 1612), in the Chapter on Sortilege [De
Sortilegis lib. tit. 12 c. 3; pp. 334-338], in the scholion to
article XII from the first council of Rome under Pope Gregory II
("Junior") in 722 "De aruspiscibus, vel incantatoribus, seu
phylacteriis" includes "chartas" -
"If anyone has heeded (observaverit) or consulted diviners,
soothsayers, or enchanters, or used phylacteries, let him be
anathema. (Scholion: by "heeded" (ab observando), they mean
characters, cards, or other types of amulets, or for averting evils,
or any other thing which is done superstitiously)" (pp. 336-337).
[ab observando, & significant characteres, chartas, vel alia delata
pro amuletis, seu pro aversione malorum, vel ad aliud quippiam cum superstitione faciendum]]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TarotL/message/40102
See also Michael Hurst's entry on this note at
http://www.geocities.com/cartedatrionfi/Fragments/1540-1739.html
Ross
"He sins mortally who asks, or is willing to ask, charlatans or diviners about a lost object or some other secret: or else tries to know the same thing by lots, rolling dice, cards, books, a riddle or an astrolabe..."
[Martin de Azpilcueta, "Enchiridion sive Manuale Confessariorum et Poenitentium" (Paris, François Huby, 1620): c. XI, note 30 (p. 191)].
As the title indicates, this is a manual for confessors (priests) and penitents.
Martin de Azpilcueta died in 1586, and this book is a translation into Latin of an original Spanish edition from 1556 "Compendio del Manual de Confessores". It remains to be seen if the Spanish edition speaks of cards, and how. If you are near a library that has it, please check - chapter XI, note (or paragraph) 30. It would be interesting to know if he uses the Spanish term "naipes".
This entry joins Pierre Gregoire's 1612 gloss on an early council anathema, mentioning the use of phylacteries and "chartas" -
[1612 - "chartas": The canonist Pierre Gregoire (1540-1617) in his
compendium of papal and conciliar pronouncements and Church
law "Juris Pontifici" (Lyon, 1612), in the Chapter on Sortilege [De
Sortilegis lib. tit. 12 c. 3; pp. 334-338], in the scholion to
article XII from the first council of Rome under Pope Gregory II
("Junior") in 722 "De aruspiscibus, vel incantatoribus, seu
phylacteriis" includes "chartas" -
"If anyone has heeded (observaverit) or consulted diviners,
soothsayers, or enchanters, or used phylacteries, let him be
anathema. (Scholion: by "heeded" (ab observando), they mean
characters, cards, or other types of amulets, or for averting evils,
or any other thing which is done superstitiously)" (pp. 336-337).
[ab observando, & significant characteres, chartas, vel alia delata
pro amuletis, seu pro aversione malorum, vel ad aliud quippiam cum superstitione faciendum]]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TarotL/message/40102
See also Michael Hurst's entry on this note at
http://www.geocities.com/cartedatrionfi/Fragments/1540-1739.html
Ross