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Jacub (*?-✝︎?)
active in Prague (c.1515-c.1524)


Biography Details
after 1517 mentioned as painter of playing cards (illumintoři malovali hrací karty)
1517 citizen of the Old Town
after 1517 He lives and runs a card business in the house "U rajské jablíček" No. 78/1. It is documented that in addition to the card trade in 1577! he serves beer in his house.
1524 swore against Protestantism in the town hall
1577 (?) In addition to the card trade he serves beer in his house.

Remark:
There was probably a scribal error in the literature that confused the numbers 1 and 7, and thus the wrong dating (1517/1577) occurred.

Literature:
Bílý P., Nàlezy nejstarších hracích karet v Čechách a na Moravě (od nejstarších dob do r. 1620) Rudolfinská akademie Asociace starožitníků, o. s., 2010/2011
Vinter V., K ikonografii pražských památek, Zprávy památkové péče, 69: 469-471, 2009
Winter Zikmund, Dèjiny Řemesel a obchodu v čechách v XIV. a v XV. století, Praze 1906, p.518
Zuman F, Výrobky z papíru, Časopis Společnosti přátel starožitností československých v Praze, 161-185, 1929