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Raoul de Presles stands for a riddle about a picture, which was suspected to be very old.
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Raoul de Presles is noted at Kaplan I, p. 32. Kaplan gives the explanation, that the relevant picture uses costumes relevant to the time of Charles VI and not to the time of the early 1370's. Also it's stated, that the translation was made 1371-75.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_de_Presles
Raoul de Presles presents a book to French king Charles V.
Following note was captured at
Origine des cartes à jouer: recherches nouvelles sur les naibis, les tarots ... By Romain Merlin
http://books.google.com/books?id=rq_QiRjNutQC&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false
I found the connected article in magasin pittoresque:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k31419b.image.f135.langFR
... with the picture:
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Ross Caldwell was so energetic to find the real picture. It's from late 15th century, and not, as earlier suspected, much earlier:
More info
http://www.google.de/search?q=Raoul...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
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Raoul de Presles is noted at Kaplan I, p. 32. Kaplan gives the explanation, that the relevant picture uses costumes relevant to the time of Charles VI and not to the time of the early 1370's. Also it's stated, that the translation was made 1371-75.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_de_Presles
Raoul de Presles presents a book to French king Charles V.
Following note was captured at
Origine des cartes à jouer: recherches nouvelles sur les naibis, les tarots ... By Romain Merlin
http://books.google.com/books?id=rq_QiRjNutQC&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false
I found the connected article in magasin pittoresque:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k31419b.image.f135.langFR
... with the picture:
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Ross Caldwell was so energetic to find the real picture. It's from late 15th century, and not, as earlier suspected, much earlier:
More info
http://www.google.de/search?q=Raoul...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a