Playing cards used as the divinatory cards

Case : 611

Many historian believe that the divination has been invented at the same time with the appearance of playing cards in Europe via the Silk Road.  The most important proof is that the Moorish cards from have calligraphic texts along the tops of the cards consist of rhyming aphorisms that are the predictions of fortune. A Spanish document “Juego de Naypes” (Game of Cards), c.1450, by Fernando de la Torre mentioned also the playing cards belonging with some verse  written inside which could be used in divination. Many registration like above could be found from 15th to 16th century. But it seems likely that there are no survived divination card in which contains some texts directly on the design, after the Moorish and Mamluk cards. More definitively, a 16th century text called Mainzer Kartenlosbuch, printed by Peter Schöffer in Mainz, and the painting called The Fortune-Teller by Lucas van Leyden, show that the divination with the normal playing cards (not a special deck) is very popular at this time.