A History of Games Played with the Tarot Pack Supplement

philebus

I haven't seen a post about this yet so I thought I would mention that the first supplement to the Dummett and McLeod history of tarot games is now available. My copy arrived this morning and cost only £5 for 76 pages of a few erratum and quite a lot of addendum. You can download the pdf version without charge from www.tarotgame.org

Looks like it became available in January but I hadn't checked back there for a long while.
 

Ross G Caldwell

Thanks very much, I didn't know that! (downloaded it)

I checked in often to tarotgame.org, but not in last few months. They credit me, erroneously, with Alciato's Lombardy order, on page S 6. I only brought it to the internet's attention - in fact it was Pratesi in the 1980s who rediscovered Zdekauer's 1890s reference - and Michael Dummett himself in 1993 mentions it (in Il mondo e l'Angelo pp. 327-328), which is where *I* found it.

There is even a 17th century reference to Alciato's discussion of tarocchi - obviously these things percolate slowly.
 

Bernice

I downloaded it too. Very interesting and informative! Thank you.

Bee :)
 

ihcoyc

Now I find myself coveting a 1JJ Swiss deck in German.