Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the Trustees of the British museum by the late Lady Charlotte Schreiber.

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CATALOGUE OF CARDS.

inscribed "Bononia docet" and "Libertas." On the 10 of coins
is "Carte fine al Mondo." Backs decorated with an armorial
cartouche, Pepoli impaling Colonna, and inscribed " al Mondo."
48 x 2- in.
38. Bologna; Mitelli's Tarocchini; 17th century. Complete and carefully coloured pack of the well known cards designed and etched
by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli for the Bentivoglio family. The subjects
are all fancifully and artistically treated. Backs decorated with
figure of a horseman who holds a shield charged with the arms of
(probably) a gonfaloniere of the Pamfili family, with the word
"Trombetta" at bottom.
48 x 23 in. [S. Vol. III, pl. 35-40.]
39. Bologna; Mitelli's Tarccchini, 1803. Complete pack of coloured
woodcuts, copied from the preceding. On the king of coins is
"Incise d'Ordine Espresa del C. Luigi Leonar Bentiv. l'anno
1803;" on the ace of coins, "Joseph M. Mitelli in. Franciscus
Barattini sc.;" on the ace of cups, "Li Trop Vizi Manden In Precipizi; " on the ace of swords, "Custodiae Custos;" on the ace of
clubs, "Virtus Ardua;" and on the 6 of swords," Desiderium L.
Peribit." Backs decorated with a blue panel. In black cardboard
case.
4 x 24 in.
40. Ferrara; P. Cassini; 18th century. Imperfect pack of 40, doubleended; very rudely executed. On the ace of coins is " P. Cassini,
Ferrara." The missing cards are the 7, 8 and 9 of cups; 7-10,
knave and king of swords; 6, 9 and 10 of coins; 6, 8, 9, 10 and
king of clubs; and atutti Nos. II, III, IV, IX and XXII. Backs
decorated with a blue panel having the word " Ferrara " on a scroll.
44 x 2 in.
41. Place of issue uncertain; 18th century. Complete pack, doubleended; effectively engraved cn wood and coloured. Backs decorated with a woodcut of a naked boy, who is in some cases
turned to the right, in others to the left. In old pasteboard case.
44 x 24 in. [S. Vol. III, pi. 40-43.]
42. Place of issue uncertain; 18th century. Six cards (from which
the backs have been removed and mounted separately), belonging
to a double-ended pack similar to Nos. 33-37, viz. the 9, knight and
queen of swords, the 9 and queen of clubs and one of the Moors
belonging to the atutti. The backs are decorative panels in red
and blue.
44 x 2 in.