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The '''Ambraser Hofjagdspiel''' (Court Hunting Pack of Ambras), also called the "Ambras falconer cards", is a pack of cards painted around 1440–1445 and attributed to the engraver [[Konrad Witz]] from Basle, Switzerland.

== Description ==

It originally consisted of fifty-six cards from which only 54 survive, all distributed in four hunting-related [[Suit (cards)|suits]]: falcons, lures, hounds and herons.

Each suit contained ten pip cards with the 10s being represented by a banner like many old German playing cards and modern Swiss playing cards.

There are four face cards per suit: the Unter, Ober, Queen, and King.

It was found in a collection at the [[Ambras Castle]], in Innsbruck, Austria, in the sixteenth century, and now figures as a precious item in the collection of cards of the [[Kunsthistorisches Museum]] in Vienna.

== See also ==

* [[Flemish Hunting Deck]], another 15th-century hunting deck
* [[Hofamterspiel]], a deck found together with the Hofjagdspiel in [[Ambras Castle]]
* [[Playing cards]]

== External links ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambraser_Hofjagdspiel Ambraser Hofjagdspiel] @ Wikipedia

[[Category:Playing cards]]

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