He presented students – with his 16 written lectures as ‘Letters’ or charta – practical exercises to supplement and reinforce students’ memory of the material. Connection between the principles of card-pack construction and those of Murner’s mnemonic figures is evident. A card pack’s emblems, alluded to the quarters of time and direction, while Murner’s are keyed to his sequence of lectures. The emblems and pictorial figures in standard packs were derived from astronomical types.
Thomas Murner developed around 1502 his “Chartiludium Institute summary”, conceived to facilitate the study of the Justinian code. It was realised as a true game/deck of cards, before taking the form of a book. The Chartiludium Institute, is the oldest example of a pedagogical game of cards, and it remains in three exemplars. At the Library of the University of Basle (119 cards), at the Austrian National Library of Vienna (110 cards), and at the Bertarelli Civic Collection of Prints of Milan (111 cards). http://www.leeasher.com/playing_cards/collectors/index.html
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