A Tarot Timeline

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 19 Oct 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

MystiqueMoonlight	19 Oct 2002
Found this whilst researching on the web an thought ya'll might find it interesting... A Tarot Timeline The Middle Ages & The Rennaissance: 1377: According to Dummett, the earliest mention of playing cards. 144?: A paining entitled "The Tarocchi Players". 1442: Tarot cards ordered for the Court of Ferrara. 1440 -1480: Bembo, an Italian artist produces several decks, of which portions still exist. Some are commissioned by Filippo Maria Viscounti prior to his death in 1447. 1450-80: A sermon is recorded that list the Trumps. French Occultists 1781: Court De Gebelin (Antoine Gebelin) publishes "Le Monde Primatif" in which he asserts that the Tarot must be Egyptian in origin because it contains hidden symbolism. Gebelin attributes Hebrew letters to the cards. 1785: Etteilla publishes the first book devoted to divination by Tarot. c.1788: Etteilla publishes the first deck specifically for esoteric purposes, including divination. 1813: Antoine Fabre d'Olivet publishes "Les Vers Dores de Pythagore Expliques" in which he gives mystical interpretations to sayings attributed to Pythagoras. 1814: Antonio Dargoni suggests the importance of numbers 3 and 7. 1816: Antoine Fabre d'Olivet publishes "La Lange Hebraique Restituee," a grammar of biblical Hebrew. 1823: Lenain publishes "La Science Kabbalistique". 1829: Eusebe Solverte publishes "Des Sciences Occultes". 1854: d'Ambly mentions gypsy origin for Tarot. 1854- 1855: Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant) publishes "Dogma et Rituel de la Haute Magie" in which he popularizes and expounds upon Gebelin's Kabbalistic associations. 1857: Valliant publishes study of gypsies that reinforces Tarot origin theory. 1865: Taylor mentions gypsy origin for Tarot. 1889: Papus (Gerard Encausse) publishes "Le Tarot des Bohemiens" in which he summarizes many of the strands of thought found in earlier occultists' theories. 1889: Oswald Wirth, a Swiss occultist writing in French, publishes a Majors only deck. 1927: Wirth publishes "The Tarot Of The Magicians". English Occultists: 1888: The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn founded. 1891: A.E. Waite joins the Golden Dawn. 1898: Aleister Crowley joins the Golden Dawn. 1909: Waite publishes his tarot deck. Designed by Pixie Smith, this deck will become the most popular deck in the English speaking world. 1910: Waite publishes "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot". 1944: Crowley publishes the "Thoth" tarot book with illustrations of a deck painted by Lady Frieda Harris.

nina	19 Oct 2002
Hello, Shouldn't Aeclectic get mentioned somewhere in there? -Nina

Sinta	19 Oct 2002
Quote: Originally posted by nina Hello, Shouldn't Aeclectic get mentioned somewhere in there? -Nina LOL yeah we belong in that timeline too ^-^ Thanks for sharing Mystique Moonlight ;) Always love to hear a piece of Tarot history ^-^

Keslynn	19 Oct 2002
Great info, MM! Thanks for posting it for us. :) Kes

Eyes of Night	19 Oct 2002
Thanks for posting the timeline. I wouldn't mind getting some of those books you mentionned.

Teranar	19 Oct 2002
Heh, its always great to hear something's origon. To understand something's beginning, or past, is to understand its future.

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