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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
	Further Notes about Imperatori Decks (also Karnöffel and Kaiserspiel) Summary of Entries (based more or less on Michael's Hursts gathering): 1423 Florence/Ferrara, Italy 1426 Nördlingen, Bavaria In the earliest known reference to Karnöffel, it was "listed in a municipal ordinance of Nördlingen in 1426 as among the games that could lawfully be played at the annual city fête." 1435 Alsace, France Meister Ingold wrote Das Guldin Spiel, including a possible reference to Karnöffel. 1443 Würzburg, Germany "... a chronicle from Würzburg, Germany for 1443-1455 mentions 'a certain individual... playing at cards a game called the Emperor's Game (ludus Imperatoris)', a literal Latin rendering of Kaiserspiel." 1443 Ferrara, Italy 1450 Ferrara, Italy 1450 Germany A poem by Meissner provides the earliest information about the ranking of cards in Karnöffel. 1452 Ferrara, Italy 1454 Ferrara, Italy (?) "... records state that Borso d'Este played at cards: 'of the Emperor' (dell'imperatore) in Ferrara around 1454." 1496 Kaiserberg, Germany A sermon by Bishop Johann Geiler compared the order of cards in the game of Karnöffel or Kaiserspiel (using both names) to the social order, lamenting that "everything is turned upside down" in Karnöffel 1515 Kaiserberg, Germany A sermon by Bishop Gieler notes that in this inverted social order, "the Carnöffel beats them all" 1537 Germany A Protestant satirical work uses the allegory of Karnöffel to berate the Pope. 1546 Germany Another Protestant work, in the form of a dialogue between the Devil and the Pope, includes information about a number of rules of play. 1783 Thuringia, Germany "The earliest detailed account of the manner of play comes from an article published in a German periodical of 1783, describing Karniffle as then played among the Thuringian peasantry." "The Thuringian and Frisian versions have the surprising feature of having two trump suits, while the Swiss forms have only one."
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