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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13,090
"Lo Scheggio", playing card producer 1447-1449
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6
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11,655
The Sword of My Mouth
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3
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3,934
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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24,289
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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3,309
Why, then, are there 22 Trumps?
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11
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7,190
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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2,788
Wonders of the Minchiate Etruria
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25
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18,873
TdM from an art history perspective
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26
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23,751
Please help me translate this to english
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18
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8,681
Georgius Gemistus Plethon
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113
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87,719
Mariasove playing cards
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2
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3,400
Carmina Burana
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5
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4,000
Historical Lismon Etteilla 1840s-1890-Not Reproductions
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1
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2,901
The Hidden One
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1
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4,849
Tarot Tour of Italy
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10
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6,152
Cards as "hieroglyphs"
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49
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48,321
Celtic Cross Created By William Butler Yeats
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30
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17,828
San Sigismondo
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6
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8,346
Mummluks Cards Originals And Fac Similes
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25
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10,911
Framed Story: Canterbury Tales
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0
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5,909
Collection Frame stories
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0
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3,156
The Sindibad Tarocchi story
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4
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5,957
Cary-Yale 17
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6
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5,678
"20 Figure" and the 5x14-theory
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13
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36,920
Cary-Yale and Pierpon-Morgan Bergamo trionfi
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1
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3,141
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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3,107
Trajano Boccalini (1556 – 1613)
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1
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9,256
Andrea del Sarto's "Hanged Man" sketches
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124
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80,124
Did Shakespeare play tarot?
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95
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34,394
18 figures / neuf preux & neuf preuse
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3
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9,662
Children's games, divination, cartomancy
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1
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3,760
The Power of Myth
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94
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29,425
Mysterious Cards in 16th c England - Help
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6
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6,325
Filippo Maria Visconti & the Astrologer
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3
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6,377
Tarot - the game
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23
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9,607
The Lion, The Pagan And The Eighth Card.
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24
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12,761
Cardinal virtue of Wisdom/Prudence
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98
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55,457
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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3,858
Who was Sameref?
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8
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5,076
Mark Filipas - The Pasteboard Masquerade
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95
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35,857
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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154,365
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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4,452
Renaissance Canon article mentions early Tarot
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49
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14,348
Cards for rich persons ... silver cards
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12
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9,512
Moralization of Cards
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7
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4,457
Chess as a factor in the origin of Tarot
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39
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14,077
Pope Leo X playing cards
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8
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9,550
Hugh Latimer's "Sermons on the Card"
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0
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2,671
Is Tarot explained in Revelations?
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30
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17,691
A recent interview of Alain BOUGEAREL by Jacques Halbronn
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1
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3,480
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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5,615
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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3,710
New book - "Explaining the Tarot"
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88
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29,714
Mottoes and Devices of the Sforza
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39
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15,121
Visconti Sforza Force/Strength Yet Again!
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25
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11,629
A Bon Droyt
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9
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8,239
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Playing Cards
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0
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3,214
Dating the Cary Yale Visconti
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12
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7,059
a stone version of the fool ?
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37
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10,956
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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6,206
Visconti Empress Who Might Not Be One
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8
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6,438
Straw hat debate
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62
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29,785
Artist and Patron
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22
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10,139
Sola Busca note - William Hughes Wilshire, April 12, 1876
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11
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7,230
Help for old french card. Fish & Clog.
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39
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11,450
"Life Is A Dream"
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17
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5,894
Christians-Spices-Dragon Cards.
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3
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3,055
Games of Four Directions
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9
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4,407
Justice : Its original Placement
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15
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5,955
The Kings Cardmaker: Regia Fabbricca & Lombardy regional cardmakers
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0
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2,452
Transformation Playing Cards
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3
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3,459
A Pre-Tarot Papessa in Padova?
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54
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81,139
Talking about the GAME of Tarot
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29
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10,885
Another Way Of Seeing the Cards.
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22
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7,570
More Mystic Rose from the Garden of the King
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5
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7,574
Sacred Empty Places.
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46
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14,276
History of layouts
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19,916
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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15,059
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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2,794
Aenigma
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4
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3,279