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Sola Busca- From William Hughes Wilshire, April 12, 1876 to Brera purchase 2010
A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and other Cards in the British Museum
William Hughes Wilshire
April 12, 1876
Elibron Classics (reprint)
Tarots
P.77-78
I. 3. (Prints of the Early Italian Schoo, Vol. ii.)
Last Quarter of Fifteenth Century, Venice.
"Although Cicognara saw at Naples and Milan two complete series of these cards, he gives but an incomplete account of their number, contours, figures and design. We would observe only that if the figure of Pillio be maked with the number 1, i may show that the pieces before us formed part of a Giuoco del Fante di Spade, in which, according to Venetian custom, this ards is the highest of all the pieces.
"As far as we can judge from the thirty-two cards known to us, there should be twenty numbered figures, while the other cards (king, queen, knight and knaves) ore the marks of the suits of spade, coppe, denari and bastoni." (Pass, vol. v. pp. 127-129).
[5 1/8 x 2 7/8 in.]
Will return later to type in whole excerpt, correct.
According to the excerpt only 4 of the cards were at the British Museum and 31 are described.
This was as of 1876. Subsequent contributions to the museum may have included further examples. Marchioness Busca (born Duchess Serbelloni) at Milan had samples in her cabinet.
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A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and other Cards in the British Museum
William Hughes Wilshire
April 12, 1876
Elibron Classics (reprint)
Tarots
P.77-78
I. 3. (Prints of the Early Italian Schoo, Vol. ii.)
Last Quarter of Fifteenth Century, Venice.
"Although Cicognara saw at Naples and Milan two complete series of these cards, he gives but an incomplete account of their number, contours, figures and design. We would observe only that if the figure of Pillio be maked with the number 1, i may show that the pieces before us formed part of a Giuoco del Fante di Spade, in which, according to Venetian custom, this ards is the highest of all the pieces.
"As far as we can judge from the thirty-two cards known to us, there should be twenty numbered figures, while the other cards (king, queen, knight and knaves) ore the marks of the suits of spade, coppe, denari and bastoni." (Pass, vol. v. pp. 127-129).
[5 1/8 x 2 7/8 in.]
Will return later to type in whole excerpt, correct.
According to the excerpt only 4 of the cards were at the British Museum and 31 are described.
This was as of 1876. Subsequent contributions to the museum may have included further examples. Marchioness Busca (born Duchess Serbelloni) at Milan had samples in her cabinet.
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