Historic playing cards

Mamluk and Moorish

Mamluk card fragment, c. 1300?

Moorish style cards, c. 1400

Moorish style cards, 15th century

Mamluk cards, c. 1500

15th century: Court and hunting decks

Stuttgart playing cards (Stuttgarter Kartenspiel), c. 1430

Ambras Court hunting deck (Ambraser Hofjagdspiel), c. 1440

Ambras Court playing cards (Ambraser Hofämterspiel), c. 1455

Flemish hunting deck (Flämisches Jagdkartenspiel), c. 1475

Engraved cards

Master PW, c. 1500

Virgil Solis, c. 1544

16th century woodcut cards

Hans Sebald Beham, c. 1523

Erhard Schön, c. 1530

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, c. 1535

Peter Flötner (Das Flötner'sche Kartenspiel), c. 1540

Jost Amman's Charta Lusoria, 1588

Johann Bussemacher, 1591

Major subtypes

Trionfi, tarocchi, tarot or tarock, 15th century to the present

▹ The Budapest cards (tarot and non-tarot)

▹ Catelin Geofroy, 1557

Cucu, Vogelspiel, Kille, Gnav and Slabberjan, 17th century to the present

Outside Europe

Japanese cards, from c. 1550

Unique compositions

The Michelino deck, c. 1425

Mantegna cards, c. 1465

Tor Gjerde <i@old.no>