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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12,721
"Lo Scheggio", playing card producer 1447-1449
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6
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11,355
The Sword of My Mouth
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3
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3,816
les tailleurs de pierre - stone cutters
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8
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3,873
Guillaume Postel, the Clavis and ROTA
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22
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Michael Dummett has died
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13
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5,560
Has anyone ever confirmed missing Oswald Wirth material in Papus English translations
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0
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2,161
In what deck did the Hanged Man originally appear?
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4
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3,143
Why, then, are there 22 Trumps?
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11
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6,894
Gonzaga and Mantova Documents
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2,336
1378 Hennegau "quarten"
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2,153
Early cards of Urbino
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2,699
Wonders of the Minchiate Etruria
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25
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17,870
TdM from an art history perspective
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26
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22,452
Please help me translate this to english
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18
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8,374
Georgius Gemistus Plethon
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113
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85,909
Mariasove playing cards
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2
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3,250
Carmina Burana
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5
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3,730
Historical Lismon Etteilla 1840s-1890-Not Reproductions
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1
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2,786
The Hidden One
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1
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4,740
Tarot Tour of Italy
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10
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5,884
Cards as "hieroglyphs"
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49
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47,113
Celtic Cross Created By William Butler Yeats
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30
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17,339
San Sigismondo
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6
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8,051
Mummluks Cards Originals And Fac Similes
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25
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10,587
Framed Story: Canterbury Tales
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0
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5,810
Collection Frame stories
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3,026
The Sindibad Tarocchi story
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4
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5,835
Cary-Yale 17
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6
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5,533
"20 Figure" and the 5x14-theory
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13
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35,714
Cary-Yale and Pierpon-Morgan Bergamo trionfi
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1
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2,986
Questions to "20 Figure" and the 5x14-theory
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2,148
an aritmetrichal game
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2
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2,987
Trajano Boccalini (1556 – 1613)
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9,113
Andrea del Sarto's "Hanged Man" sketches
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124
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78,323
Did Shakespeare play tarot?
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95
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33,232
18 figures / neuf preux & neuf preuse
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3
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9,482
Children's games, divination, cartomancy
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1
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3,658
The Power of Myth
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94
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28,497
Mysterious Cards in 16th c England - Help
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6
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6,192
Filippo Maria Visconti & the Astrologer
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3
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6,220
Tarot - the game
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23
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9,316
The Lion, The Pagan And The Eighth Card.
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24
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12,387
Cardinal virtue of Wisdom/Prudence
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98
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53,762
Andrea Vitali
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3
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4,823
Raoul de Presles 1375
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6
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3,682
d'Artagnan, the musketeer
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0
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4,069
Nothelfer and Chess
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0
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3,767
Who was Sameref?
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8
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4,897
Mark Filipas - The Pasteboard Masquerade
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95
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34,448
New Material on Mantegna Tarocchi
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0
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2,918
Contrasts:Art Nouveau 1895 Calendar spoof with Tarot, Astrology and Darker "Occultic"
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1
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4,107
  • Locked
reconsidering a cathar connection
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391
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150,729
Time to Pretend
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0
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2,781
Guelfes et gibelins en Lombardie
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2
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4,350
Renaissance Canon article mentions early Tarot
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49
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13,876
Cards for rich persons ... silver cards
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12
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9,339
Moralization of Cards
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7
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4,351
Chess as a factor in the origin of Tarot
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39
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13,550
Pope Leo X playing cards
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8
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9,357
Hugh Latimer's "Sermons on the Card"
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0
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2,586
Is Tarot explained in Revelations?
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30
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17,245
A recent interview of Alain BOUGEAREL by Jacques Halbronn
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1
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3,384
Absalom and the Sola Busca Three of Swords
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24
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11,746
New Material on Mantegna Tarocchi & Sola Busca
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6
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5,488
The Devil In The Deck
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26
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15,128
Mixed Influences Of Tarot
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4
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3,613
New book - "Explaining the Tarot"
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88
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28,862
Mottoes and Devices of the Sforza
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39
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14,649
Visconti Sforza Force/Strength Yet Again!
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25
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11,279
A Bon Droyt
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9
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7,861
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Playing Cards
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3,102
Dating the Cary Yale Visconti
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12
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6,891
a stone version of the fool ?
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37
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10,551
Jost Ammon historic cards (16th Century German)
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1
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4,698
What Are Imperali Cards?
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16
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6,016
Visconti Empress Who Might Not Be One
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8
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6,342
Straw hat debate
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62
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29,019
Artist and Patron
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22
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9,825
Sola Busca note - William Hughes Wilshire, April 12, 1876
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11
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7,003
Help for old french card. Fish & Clog.
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39
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11,041
"Life Is A Dream"
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17
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5,661
Christians-Spices-Dragon Cards.
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3
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2,967
Games of Four Directions
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9
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4,274
Justice : Its original Placement
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15
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5,775
The Kings Cardmaker: Regia Fabbricca & Lombardy regional cardmakers
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0
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2,377
Transformation Playing Cards
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3
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3,364
A Pre-Tarot Papessa in Padova?
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54
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80,195
Talking about the GAME of Tarot
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29
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10,520
Another Way Of Seeing the Cards.
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22
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7,337
More Mystic Rose from the Garden of the King
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5
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Sacred Empty Places.
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46
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History of layouts
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Rosicrucianism and Tarot
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1
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3,996
A question about Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla)
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4
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5,368
De Gebelin and Comte de M***
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32
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14,606
Enrique Enriquez interviews Ross S. Caldwell
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6
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3,503
Jouent Aux Cartes...(Playing of Cards)
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1
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2,720
Aenigma
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4
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3,183