For more information about how some of these games were played, see these links. You can also find rules for these and other games. See also Art History of Cheating for additional related artworks.
Men playing cards, Roman du Roy Meliadus de Leonnoys (British Library MS Add. 12228, fol. 313v), c. 1352
That no Lorde, nor other persone of lowere astate, condicion or degree, whatsoever he be, suffre any Dicyng or pleiyng at the Cardes within his hous, or elles where he may let it, of any of his servauntes or other, oute of the XII days of Christmasse.
January and May murals, Die Augsburger Monatsbilder, Germany, 1520s. One of the knights in the tournament-scene in the February section rides a horse caparisoned all in playing cards.
Lockere Gesellschaft by Jan Sanders van Hemessen, c. 1545-1550 Cards are stacked under a goblet in the foreground.
