Collection Online-Resources

[Bernice]

Many thanks for those links/downloads Huck!

Lots to read now - and catch up on....

Bee

[Huck]

Amman, Jost / Schroeter, Johann Heinrich: Charta lusoria, Nürnberg, 1588

Originnal edition of the Jost Amman deck inside a book text

http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/...024415/images/

Latin/German

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Pambst, Paul: Looßbuch zu ehren der Römischen, Ungarischen und Böhmischen Künigin, Straßburg 1546

(with many nice woodcuts)

Losbuch system with:

21 questions (wheel-system)
21 Fathers (wheel-system)
21 Heroes
21 Kings (dice system with 3 dice)
21 Prophets (wheel-system)

Answers:
21 Saints and 7 planets give 1197 answers -
1197 = (57 x 21) or (56x21 + 21)

Interesting details:
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Saint Nr. 19 is decorated with a Drachenschwanz.
The Drachenkopf is used at the signature of the author at the end of the book

Interesting representation of the planets:
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Saturn - answer verses 1145 - 1154 - total 10 verses
Mond - answer verses 1155 -1160 - total 6 verses
Juppiter -- answer verses 1161 - 1172 - total 12 verses
Mars - answer verses 1173 - 1176 - total 4 verses
Sonne - answer verses 1176 - 1191 - total 15 verses
Venus - answer verses 1192 - 1196 - total 5 verses
Mercurius - answer verses 1197 - total 1 verse

Description of the book (German)
http://www.vialibri.net/item_pg/1615...en-kunigin.htm


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Thalberg, F. von: Der perfecte Kartenspieler oder practische Anleitung zur leichten Erlernung von 86 Kartenspielen wie: Boston, Skat, Whist, L'Hombre, Préférence, Sechs und sechzig, Dreiblatt, Casino, Mariage, Schafkopf, Piquet, Patience, Ecarté, ..., nebst Belehrung über die Kunstgriffe falscher Spieler bei den verschiedenen Kartenspielen und einem Anhange, enthaltend: Roulette und Trente et Quarante, Berlin, [ca. 1860]

http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/...014695/images/

[Bernice]

Huck: Amman, Jost / Schroeter, Johann Heinrich: Charta lusoria, Nürnberg, 1588

Original edition of the Jost Amman deck inside a book text

http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de...0024415/images/

Latin/German

Thank you Huck! I have the LS copy of this deck (called, German Renaissance).

In this book there is accompanying text with the woodcut images, I wish I could read it. There is no text on the cards, or a LWB with the LS deck.


Delightful (and thought-provoking) images. The woodcuts in the book seem clearer - or perhaps they're more finely drawn.

Bee

[Huck]

Originally Posted by Bernice

Thank you Huck! I have the LS copy of this deck (called, German Renaissance).
In this book there is accompanying text with the woodcut images, I wish I could read it. There is no text on the cards, or a LWB with the LS deck.
Delightful (and thought-provoking) images. The woodcuts in the book seem clearer - or perhaps they're more finely drawn.

Bee

I don't think, that the deck really survived, but I don't know it for sure. Probably the colored versions are a remake from the book. Somehow a "book+cards" production, like Michelino deck, Boiardo Tarocchi poem and Murners and Ringmann's teaching.

... .-) ... the occasional told argument, that the Mantegna Tarocchi wouldn't be a Tarocchi, cause there's no evidence, that it ever was found on cards, is a little obscure.

[DoctorArcanus]

Originally Posted by dios

My first post, Hi to all,

Found some scanned old gems of books at archive.org with the search term ´playing cards´:
The invention of printing
Descriptive catalogue of playing and other cards in the British Museum
Prophetical, educational and playing cards

Regards

Thank you Dios,
I see your post an year later

The British Museum catalogue seems very interesting.

[Huck]

Paul Huson

Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient Roots to Modern Usage
Edition: illustrated
Published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, 2004
ISBN 0892811900, 9780892811908

335 pages (a good part of them is in the text offered by books.google.com)

http://books.google.com/books?id=dVn...&hl=en#PPP1,M1

[Huck]

Jörg Wickram, "Kurtzweil" ("Wickram's Losbuch"), 1539
edition of 1550

http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/~d...027253/images/

Biography of Wickram

[Huck]

Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg u. a
By von Karl Meyenn, Wolfgang Pauli, Karl von Meyenn, Armin Hermann, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Werner Heisenberg
Contributor Karl von Meyenn
Edition: illustrated
Published by Springer, 1996

The German language book contains exchanges between Wolfgang Pauli and others. Wolfgang Pauli was interested in the origin of playing cards, occasionally also Tarot cards. He had contact to the Jung and his circle.

http://books.google.com/books?id=NU9...ient=firefox-a

[Ross G Caldwell]

Werner Weisbach, "Trionfi" (1919), a classic and much cited study of Triumphs in the Renaissance.
http://www.archive.org/details/trion...abbi00weisuoft

[Ross G Caldwell]

Università degli Studi di Torino, list of thousands of digitized books (PDF, scans)

http://www.opal.unito.it/default.asp...&allbooks=true

- amazing resource for old books, mostly in Italian.