Italian renaissance woodcut playing cards

Block T3

The preserved fragments come from at least four imprints. Of these, two are coloured, the third has areas cut out for use as a colouring stencil.

B6	B5	B4	B3	BA
B7	B8	B2	B9	BX
S5	S4	S3	S2	SA
S6	S7	S8	S9	SX

Budapest 5048

Budapest 46783 and 5047

Stencil, published by Melbert C. Cary; presumably in the Cary collection at Yale

Bologna fragments 3 and 4

Budapest 5048 is a composite of two nonoverlapping fragments of different sheets, one coloured and one uncoloured. 46783 and 5047 on the other hand seem to match up perfectly.

Note that the Bologna fragments (Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio; previously Silvio Berardi) are not printed from the same woodblock as the others, but from a mirror image copy of it.