Tarot History & Development

Research, theories and discussions of the origins, myths, influences and development of Tarot and playing cards.
Fortuna: identification needed
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Florence 1440 - New Earliest Reference to Tarot
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7
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13,079
"Lo Scheggio", playing card producer 1447-1449
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6
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11,653
The Sword of My Mouth
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3
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3,932
les tailleurs de pierre - stone cutters
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8
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4,007
Guillaume Postel, the Clavis and ROTA
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22
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24,286
Michael Dummett has died
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13
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5,782
Has anyone ever confirmed missing Oswald Wirth material in Papus English translations
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0
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2,259
In what deck did the Hanged Man originally appear?
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4
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3,308
Why, then, are there 22 Trumps?
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11
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7,189
Gonzaga and Mantova Documents
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2,421
1378 Hennegau "quarten"
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2,256
Early cards of Urbino
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0
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2,786
Wonders of the Minchiate Etruria
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25
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18,857
TdM from an art history perspective
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26
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23,734
Please help me translate this to english
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18
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8,680
Georgius Gemistus Plethon
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113
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87,700
Mariasove playing cards
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2
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3,399
Carmina Burana
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5
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3,994
Historical Lismon Etteilla 1840s-1890-Not Reproductions
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1
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2,899
The Hidden One
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1
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4,848
Tarot Tour of Italy
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10
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6,150
Cards as "hieroglyphs"
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49
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48,293
Celtic Cross Created By William Butler Yeats
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30
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17,827
San Sigismondo
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6
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8,344
Mummluks Cards Originals And Fac Similes
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25
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10,909
Framed Story: Canterbury Tales
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0
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5,908
Collection Frame stories
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3,155
The Sindibad Tarocchi story
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4
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5,956
Cary-Yale 17
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6
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5,676
"20 Figure" and the 5x14-theory
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13
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36,908
Cary-Yale and Pierpon-Morgan Bergamo trionfi
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1
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3,140
Questions to "20 Figure" and the 5x14-theory
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0
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2,239
an aritmetrichal game
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2
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3,106
Trajano Boccalini (1556 – 1613)
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1
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9,254
Andrea del Sarto's "Hanged Man" sketches
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124
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80,108
Did Shakespeare play tarot?
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95
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34,375
18 figures / neuf preux & neuf preuse
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3
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9,659
Children's games, divination, cartomancy
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1
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3,759
The Power of Myth
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94
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29,408
Mysterious Cards in 16th c England - Help
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6
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6,324
Filippo Maria Visconti & the Astrologer
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3
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6,375
Tarot - the game
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23
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9,606
The Lion, The Pagan And The Eighth Card.
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24
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12,759
Cardinal virtue of Wisdom/Prudence
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98
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55,455
Andrea Vitali
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3
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4,964
Raoul de Presles 1375
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6
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3,774
d'Artagnan, the musketeer
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0
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4,194
Nothelfer and Chess
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0
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3,857
Who was Sameref?
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8
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5,074
Mark Filipas - The Pasteboard Masquerade
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95
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35,834
New Material on Mantegna Tarocchi
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0
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3,028
Contrasts:Art Nouveau 1895 Calendar spoof with Tarot, Astrology and Darker "Occultic"
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1
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4,237
  • Locked
reconsidering a cathar connection
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391
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154,356
Time to Pretend
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0
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2,884
Guelfes et gibelins en Lombardie
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2
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4,451
Renaissance Canon article mentions early Tarot
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49
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14,346
Cards for rich persons ... silver cards
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12
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9,510
Moralization of Cards
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7
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4,456
Chess as a factor in the origin of Tarot
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39
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14,076
Pope Leo X playing cards
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8
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9,549
Hugh Latimer's "Sermons on the Card"
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0
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2,670
Is Tarot explained in Revelations?
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30
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17,689
A recent interview of Alain BOUGEAREL by Jacques Halbronn
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1
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3,479
Absalom and the Sola Busca Three of Swords
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24
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12,033
New Material on Mantegna Tarocchi & Sola Busca
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6
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5,614
The Devil In The Deck
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26
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15,409
Mixed Influences Of Tarot
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4
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3,708
New book - "Explaining the Tarot"
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88
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29,699
Mottoes and Devices of the Sforza
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39
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15,107
Visconti Sforza Force/Strength Yet Again!
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25
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11,627
A Bon Droyt
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9
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8,230
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Playing Cards
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0
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3,212
Dating the Cary Yale Visconti
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12
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a stone version of the fool ?
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37
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10,955
Jost Ammon historic cards (16th Century German)
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1
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4,788
What Are Imperali Cards?
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16
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6,204
Visconti Empress Who Might Not Be One
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8
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6,437
Straw hat debate
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62
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29,782
Artist and Patron
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22
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10,137
Sola Busca note - William Hughes Wilshire, April 12, 1876
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11
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7,217
Help for old french card. Fish & Clog.
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39
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11,436
"Life Is A Dream"
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17
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5,892
Christians-Spices-Dragon Cards.
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3
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3,054
Games of Four Directions
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9
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4,404
Justice : Its original Placement
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15
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5,953
The Kings Cardmaker: Regia Fabbricca & Lombardy regional cardmakers
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2,452
Transformation Playing Cards
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3
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3,457
A Pre-Tarot Papessa in Padova?
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54
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81,127
Talking about the GAME of Tarot
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29
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10,881
Another Way Of Seeing the Cards.
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22
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7,569
More Mystic Rose from the Garden of the King
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5
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7,573
Sacred Empty Places.
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46
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14,261
History of layouts
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Rosicrucianism and Tarot
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1
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4,152
A question about Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla)
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4
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5,499
De Gebelin and Comte de M***
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32
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15,058
Enrique Enriquez interviews Ross S. Caldwell
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6
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3,597
Jouent Aux Cartes...(Playing of Cards)
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1
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2,793
Aenigma
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4
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3,278