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Das Carneval gelehrter Phantasien:
Oder Sammmlung einiger kleinen Schriften zum Nutzen und Vergnügen
Schäfer, 1763 - 148 pages, by anonymous
https://books.google.de/books?id=L9...r_esc=y#v=onepage&q=wahrsagung karten&f=false
A chapter about "Wahrsagerei" ... one page notes cartomancy and coffee reading as new divination techniques, which replace older techniques as "Tacht eines Lichtes, Feuerbrandt und Eyweiß". The techniques are described in the article, cartomancy only rather short (but with enough text, that one can recognize forms of complex cartomancy). According these remarks, Cartomancy is known in the Netherlands and in Germany (in 1763), especially to the ladies. The author expresses himself, as if he addresses already a larger fashion (though it seems difficult, to find evidence for this).
As far I know this is the oldest known evidence for "advanced cartomancy" in contrast to one-card reading or very primitive forms of divination by cards. The author writes "against divination" as most other sources about early card divination.
The relevant page:
Earlier forms of primitive divination involving playing cards I found in texts for the years 1636 (preaching against sorcery), 1700 (card reading can replace dowsing - "Wünschelrute") and 1736 (cards used to find thieves) beside the well known text of 1505 (Mainzer Kartenlosbuch), which just imitated a known lot book of an earlier date (1487).
Further ...
1766 card use to find thieves (again) in preaching text
1768
Bibelkrankheiten, welche im alten Testamente vorkommen:
Nebst Augustin Kalmets Benedictinerordens Abhandlung von dem Aussatze der Juden, Volume 5
Christian Tobias Ephraim Reinhard
Günther, 1768 - 244 pages
https://books.google.de/books?id=mY...r_esc=y#v=onepage&q=wahrsagung karten&f=false
Poem to the new divination techniques (coffee reading, cards are mentioned before):
**************
Most interesting it becomes with ...
Abhandlung der Physiognomie, Metoposcopie und Chiromantie
Christian Adam Peuschel
1769 - 401 pages
https://books.google.de/books?id=S0JcAAAAcAAJ&q=karten#v=snippet&q=karten&f=false
... a Lutheran pastor with a lot of esoteric interests, but cartomancy he considers as "töricht" (stupid).
He is called a "Wolffian", which means, that he followed ideas of Christian Wolff, a German philosopher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Wolff_(philosopher)
The author Peuschel died one year after finishing the book (1770).
Lavater (in contact with Herder and many others) in 1772 took intensive notice of his work, he wrote himself about Physiognomy (1775), an influential work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Kaspar_Lavater
In Nicolai's important "Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek" (a magazine in book form running quarterly from 1765 bis 1806) appeared in 1770 an amusing commentary to the book, which is signed by "H", possibly meaning Johann Gottfried Herder, who participated intensively at the production of the magazine from 1766-1774.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Friedrich_Nicolai
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allgemeine_deutsche_Bibliothek
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder
But ...
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/aufkl/adb/adb.htm
(Bd. 13)
... claims, that the author was A.L.F. Meister
http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz60150.html
The passage to Cartomancy (by "H"):
The article appeared in the last part of 1770. At that time Herder was in Strassburg, having bad teeth and being in a longer medical treatment. The young Goethe (20 years old) visited Herder (25 years old) at this opportunity and the meeting became a big event in the chronic for German literature ("Straßburger Gespräche"; Goethe much later: "das bedeutendste Ereignis, was die wichtigsten Folgen für mich haben sollte").
The interesting point is, that the author of the Cartomancy passage notes "Strassburg" and "Kehl" (very near to Strassburg, just at the other side of the Rhine), and he seems to know (possibly), that divination cards (or only playing cards ? the passage is not totally clear) are produced in Strassburg (and likely imported to Germany, cause Strassburg had special rights for import to German countries and could avoid custom taxes).
"H" thinks in a negative manner about Peuschel and his work, but he praises with some irony (he notes own "Ober- und Unterkleider"), that Peuschel proposes Ober and Unter (German court cards) for divination and not foreign court cards (Queen and Jack).
Very old divination cards are very rare items, so perhaps this passage has some (though insecure) importance.
Peuschel's text (1769) is one year before Etteilla's first publication. I guess, that this and also the note of 1763 should be part of the Etteilla Timeline, possibly also the note of "H" (1770), as it gives a sort of hint to Strassburg's role in the production of divination cards. Etteilla also had some time in Strassburg (1777 till possibly 1781; DDD p. 82-83).
You can find an earlier (expanded) article to this theme with "trionfi village cartomancy"
at the common search engine.
Oder Sammmlung einiger kleinen Schriften zum Nutzen und Vergnügen
Schäfer, 1763 - 148 pages, by anonymous
https://books.google.de/books?id=L9...r_esc=y#v=onepage&q=wahrsagung karten&f=false
A chapter about "Wahrsagerei" ... one page notes cartomancy and coffee reading as new divination techniques, which replace older techniques as "Tacht eines Lichtes, Feuerbrandt und Eyweiß". The techniques are described in the article, cartomancy only rather short (but with enough text, that one can recognize forms of complex cartomancy). According these remarks, Cartomancy is known in the Netherlands and in Germany (in 1763), especially to the ladies. The author expresses himself, as if he addresses already a larger fashion (though it seems difficult, to find evidence for this).
As far I know this is the oldest known evidence for "advanced cartomancy" in contrast to one-card reading or very primitive forms of divination by cards. The author writes "against divination" as most other sources about early card divination.
The relevant page:
Earlier forms of primitive divination involving playing cards I found in texts for the years 1636 (preaching against sorcery), 1700 (card reading can replace dowsing - "Wünschelrute") and 1736 (cards used to find thieves) beside the well known text of 1505 (Mainzer Kartenlosbuch), which just imitated a known lot book of an earlier date (1487).
Further ...
1766 card use to find thieves (again) in preaching text
1768
Bibelkrankheiten, welche im alten Testamente vorkommen:
Nebst Augustin Kalmets Benedictinerordens Abhandlung von dem Aussatze der Juden, Volume 5
Christian Tobias Ephraim Reinhard
Günther, 1768 - 244 pages
https://books.google.de/books?id=mY...r_esc=y#v=onepage&q=wahrsagung karten&f=false
Poem to the new divination techniques (coffee reading, cards are mentioned before):
**************
Most interesting it becomes with ...
Abhandlung der Physiognomie, Metoposcopie und Chiromantie
Christian Adam Peuschel
1769 - 401 pages
https://books.google.de/books?id=S0JcAAAAcAAJ&q=karten#v=snippet&q=karten&f=false
... a Lutheran pastor with a lot of esoteric interests, but cartomancy he considers as "töricht" (stupid).
He is called a "Wolffian", which means, that he followed ideas of Christian Wolff, a German philosopher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Wolff_(philosopher)
The author Peuschel died one year after finishing the book (1770).
Lavater (in contact with Herder and many others) in 1772 took intensive notice of his work, he wrote himself about Physiognomy (1775), an influential work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Kaspar_Lavater
In Nicolai's important "Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek" (a magazine in book form running quarterly from 1765 bis 1806) appeared in 1770 an amusing commentary to the book, which is signed by "H", possibly meaning Johann Gottfried Herder, who participated intensively at the production of the magazine from 1766-1774.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Friedrich_Nicolai
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allgemeine_deutsche_Bibliothek
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder
But ...
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/aufkl/adb/adb.htm
(Bd. 13)
... claims, that the author was A.L.F. Meister
http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz60150.html
The passage to Cartomancy (by "H"):
The article appeared in the last part of 1770. At that time Herder was in Strassburg, having bad teeth and being in a longer medical treatment. The young Goethe (20 years old) visited Herder (25 years old) at this opportunity and the meeting became a big event in the chronic for German literature ("Straßburger Gespräche"; Goethe much later: "das bedeutendste Ereignis, was die wichtigsten Folgen für mich haben sollte").
The interesting point is, that the author of the Cartomancy passage notes "Strassburg" and "Kehl" (very near to Strassburg, just at the other side of the Rhine), and he seems to know (possibly), that divination cards (or only playing cards ? the passage is not totally clear) are produced in Strassburg (and likely imported to Germany, cause Strassburg had special rights for import to German countries and could avoid custom taxes).
"H" thinks in a negative manner about Peuschel and his work, but he praises with some irony (he notes own "Ober- und Unterkleider"), that Peuschel proposes Ober and Unter (German court cards) for divination and not foreign court cards (Queen and Jack).
Very old divination cards are very rare items, so perhaps this passage has some (though insecure) importance.
Peuschel's text (1769) is one year before Etteilla's first publication. I guess, that this and also the note of 1763 should be part of the Etteilla Timeline, possibly also the note of "H" (1770), as it gives a sort of hint to Strassburg's role in the production of divination cards. Etteilla also had some time in Strassburg (1777 till possibly 1781; DDD p. 82-83).
You can find an earlier (expanded) article to this theme with "trionfi village cartomancy"
at the common search engine.
