Tarot History & Development

Research, theories and discussions of the origins, myths, influences and development of Tarot and playing cards.
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Studying Tarot history.... where to start/what to read
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Collection Online-Resources
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Announcement - Playing Cards
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Forum Table of Contents
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Picard Minors Scans of Original
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WHERE ARE THE HISTORICAL PEEPS GOING
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Who Keeps The Dragon?
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Is there a canonical non-woowoo history of the tarot?
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Etteilla's Troisième Cahier Supplement: text & translation
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Etteilla and Variants Timeline II (thread started Jan. 2016)
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Etteilla Timeline and Etteilla card Variants - background
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forum.tarothistory.com
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Ars rhetorica....
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The Keir Collection
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NEW HISTORY FORUM BOARDS
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a simple timeline--
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Some possible corrospondences
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Venetian Exports
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Cary-Yale-tarocchi. Sforza-impresa: fountain.
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Phote mantenir and Petrarch
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Catelin Geofroy 1557 Lyons
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Etteilla's Correspondences
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Articles on Chinese Playing Cards & Games
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V.T. on Conver
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Topkapi Cards?
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Human Destiny in XV Century Cards
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FAICT A PARIS PAR
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The Bible and Tarot
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A tailor of stories (and 22 stories cut in wood)
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Temperance and incarnation?
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Tarot connections to the ancient Vedas of India
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Using cards upright and reversed - When did this start?
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New Details of the Visconti and D'Este Tarot
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Historians - 1702 French Book with chapter on Tarot?
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MANUEL SYNTHÉTIQUE & PRATIQUE DU TAROT by EUDES PICARD (1909)
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The Arithmological Tarot
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New Pratesi note on Cary-Yale
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Geographical Playing Cards of 1590
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How to read the cards - August 1791
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Trionfi in Venetian colonies
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Geometry and Tarot
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Errors in post-1927 versions of Wirth's "Imagiers"
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New at Trionfi.com
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Question on Tarot History
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RIP Michael Hurst
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Minchiate playing rules
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Historical Method & Evaluation
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Earliest Playing Cards
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Was Queen Joan of Naples the Papesse?
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Venetian Tarocchi Appropriati
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Visiting Italy soon, where can I see old cards?
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Anyone know what "Il Meneghello" means in English?
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What is oldest known High Priestess?
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Trinick Tetramorph
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Bologna Tarot Questions
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2 c. 1500 BnF cards: French?
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Lucca-Tarocchi
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New Tarot History website
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"luxury decks" of 1400s-1500s exhibition now in New York
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So-called "Jeu révolutionnaire"
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Translation Help for 16th Century Rouen Cards
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Early Cartomancy in Germany
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Cartomancy decks at the British Museum online:
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78
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Questions about Marsielles & Sforza
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Petit Oracles de les dames, c. 1807
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Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757 - 1810)
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Comparison JGSS deck 1797 (36 cards) with Finet deck
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Albert d'Alby (1802)
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Etteilla and Variants Timeline II
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So-called Jewish Pack?
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Grasset Saint Sauveur deck (? 1820)
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Eudes Picard meaning of the checkers board on page of swords
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Nouvel Etteilla
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66-card divination deck c. 1790 France
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Why did Eliphas Lévi link Le Mat with Shin?
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Jeu des Dames--circa 1865-1870
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The Benbine Table and Tablet of Cebes.
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What is the Moon?
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XV LE DIABLE Ishtar Inanna
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2 new "old Trionfi notes" (both in 1444)
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Tarot Travel Guide of Italy
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Trump 1, The Juggler
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Visconti Forza Newlyweds
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Is there an historical model for the Empress
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"Game of Tarot" is relatively cheaply priced
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De Sphaera
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Why they do and don't intersect
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Creating a 78 card Mamluk deck
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The Standard Hoyle: Tarot
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Mamluk Cards
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Germini - Florentine-French Trionfi 1506
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Need Eudes Picard minors meanings
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Playing Cards: The Russian Connection
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Franco-Spanish Tarot
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Is there a list of historic publishers?
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The Tarot symbols origin
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Where did Waite get his Minor Arcana iconography?
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Alchemical Gnosis, Tree of Lief and Tarot
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Early divination techniques?
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Alligator/Croc in the Fool
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Spiel der Hoffnung of 1799 revisited
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History of Tarot cards? Associations?
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Majors and Minors Different Origins?
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