He identifies the deck's creator as Nicola di Maestro Antonio.
Patrick
Several artists have been suggested, but as of yet I don't think it can be said with any degree of confidence that the artist has definitively been identified -
For 'Nicola di Maestro Antonio' as Master of the Sola Busca Tarot see: I tarocchi Sola Busca e la cultura ermetico-alchemica tra Marche e Veneto all fine del Quattrocento', Pinacoteca de Brera 2012 (Reviewed by David Landau,
Print Quarterly, XXXI, June 2014, pp. 216-219) -- (It was Andrea de Marchi who suggested Nicola di Maestro Antonio as the Master of the Sola Busca Tarocchi in a paper published in 1998 -- another of his essays on the subject also appeared as one of two essays in the catalogue for the Brera Museum exhibition in 2013 ( Il Segreto dei Segreti: I Tarocchi Sola Busca)*
The British Museum online catalogue displays a somewhat sceptical stance towards the attribution:
"The arguments proposing that the painter Nicola di Maestro Antonio engraved the tarot cards are not entirely convincing but they are here attributed to him for want of a better alternative and to reflect the most recent scholarship on the subject."
http://www.britishmuseum.org/resear...Text=playing+cards&page=6&sortBy=fromDateDesc
Also which might be of interest, The Master of the "Sola-Busca Tarocchi" and the Rediscovery of Some Ferrarese Engravings of the Fifteenth Century by Mark J. Zucker and published in Artibus et Historiae
Vol. 18, No. 35 (1997), pp. 181-194 is available to read for free from jstor (just register with jstor and you can read it as one of their three on the shelf for free scheme)
* Il Segreto dei Segreti: I Tarocchi Sola Busca (English version) is online here:
http://images.brera.beniculturali.it//f/Documenti/so/solabusca_english2