Word: cartularum
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...collection of playing cards dating from the early "Ludus Cartularum" of the German Middle Ages to the modern bridge deck has been recently presented to the Widener Library by J. E. Whitney '89, who has been collecting the cards for more than 20 years...
...first known historical mention of the gaming pastboards is the reference of a German monk in 1377 to the "Ludus Cartularum", pastime of the kings and nobles. The pack seems to have consisted of 52 cards containing four suits, very much like the cards of the present day. There were ten numbered and three court cards in a deck. The suite marks on the former were very similar to the modern ones, and the latter consisted of a King and two Marshals, the "Obermann" and Untermann", one of whom held a sign upward in his hand and the other...
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