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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 3 3 Browse Search
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tates that the earliest cards he has noticed are of the year 1440, and were made by stencils. Cards was an Oriental game, and was introduced into Europe about 1360-1390 Covelluzzo states that three packs of cards were made for Charles VI, of France in 1393. Laws in relation to their manufacture and use were passed in Italy, France, Germany, and England, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths (Eastern Goths), who founded a kingdom in Italy A. D. 493, was so illiterate that he could not write four letters at the foot of his edicts, but had them cut out of a plate of gold, and traced out the letters with a quill. It is inferred by some that he used the quill as a pen, which would be the first recorded use of it as a writing instrument; but it is most likely that he used the feather as a brush and the plate as a stencil-plate. The Emperor Justin, about the same time, used a wooden stamp. Stencil-plates are now made of thin sheets of b