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X.—A Notice of the Ludus Triumphorum and some Early Italian Card Games; with some Remarks on the Origin of the Game of Cards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

Robert Steele
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Extract

The earliest mention of cards occurs in 1377, and their history during the next century is obscure. Card playing seems to have become a popular vice very soon, since it is said to have been prohibited by the Synod of Langres in 1404. In 1423 cards equally with dice were the object of a celebrated sermon by St. Bernardin of Sienna at Bologna. The saint attributes the invention of games of chance to the devil, and gives a list of games of chance, most of which were played with dice and a backgammon board.

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Research Article
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Archaeologia , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , 1900 , pp. 185 - 200
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1900

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page 187 note a These two paragraphs seem to have been notes to be expanded by the preacher.

page 189 note a B.M. Eg. 2419, and Vienna, CCCXXII. Denis.