Ross G Caldwell
Bernice said:So it could be that at some point early in the 1500s this Visconti deck became numbered. Thanks Ross. (More food for thought).
Bee
We're not talking about a Visconti deck in Piscina's or Anonymous' case.
The Visconti decks were never numbered, if you mean numbers on the cards. But don't confuse that with "order" - there is no reason to think the cards were ever NOT in a sequence or hierarchy.
To this day, Bolognese cards bear no names (even the court cards don't have printed names), and it wasn't until the late 18th century that some of the trumps got numbered. But they were always ordered in a hierarchy for play.