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Document-Groups Overview Early Prohibitions (- ca. 1420) Other early Notes (- ca. 1420) Actions in Paris and France Notes about Printing (Ferrara) Prohibition around Florence     (1377 - ca. 1500) Notes about Imperatori decks     in Ferrara (1423 - 1452) Further Notes about     Imperatori decks Name of Trionfi (1441 - 1463) Notes about Minchiate Vita di Filippo Visconti Further Articles     and Conclusions Prohibition theory Trionfi-Kids Trionfi and Church Conclusions about Florence The Gringonneur Case	Documents of early Playing Cards History
	Focus on early Notes in Paris and France (- ca. 1420) 1369 Paris, France. Ordinance forbade various games, but did not mention cards. A similar ordinance in 1377 included cards. (P 35, 37; GT 11; K I:24.) 1377 Paris, France Ordinance prohibiting "card-play in contexts clearly directed at the working classes". A similar ordinance from 1369 did not mention cards. (P 35, 37; GD 10.) 1392 Paris France Account book for King Charles VI, "Given to Jacquemin Gringonneur, painter, for three packs of cards, gilt and colored, and variously ornamented, for the amusement of the king, fifty-six sols of Paris." These are not the so-called Gringonneur cards, aka Charles VI cards, which are a late fifteenth-century Ferrarese Tarot deck. These three decks might be better compared to the 1440 Tortona deck. (K I:24; GT 65-66; P 37.) (Ross Gregory Caldwell has researched in detail the Gringonneur-entry and its long being taken as the oldest reference to Tarotcards, compare his article). 1396 Paris France "At the French court a hawker or maker of cases, Guion Groslet appears in the account books of 1396 for having sold an estuy for the cards of Queen Isabelle of Bavaria (Charles VI's wife)." (Ortalli 178.) 1397 Paris, France Prohibition against card playing. (K I:24.) This may be the same prohibition referred to by Ortalli, "when the prevot of Paris forbade the gens de metier from playing cards on working days." (Ortalli 178.) 1408 Orleans, France of the Duke and Duchess of Orleans, listing "ung jeu de quartes sarrasines and unes quartes de Lombardie (‘one pack of Saracen cards; one cards of Lombardy’)". (GT 42.) 1408 Paris, France Court records describe con artists using cards in a simple scam "with a psychological  resemblance to Three-card Monte." (Giobbi; P 73.)
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