Tarot History & Development

Research, theories and discussions of the origins, myths, influences and development of Tarot and playing cards.
Historical question re the minor arcana
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Crusades
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The 'other' meaning of Minchiate...
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Lunar Mansion cards - Chinese - Help needed.
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Sources for triumph (Douce 1807)
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The Evolution of Tarot
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Angel/s of the New Year
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Floskaartjes
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Mulûk Wa-Nawwâb (Mamluk) card images
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Mapping the The World and La Monde/Il Mondo
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The two pillars - Josephus and Egypt
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Raymond Lull and his Llibres
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Nicolas Conver Identity
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"tarot History" versus historiography
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The "order" of the suits
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A picture ... and the Rovere oak
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1340, playing cards in Bohemia
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Itinerary late 13thC - China Turkey Persia France and Italy
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Begin of Cartomancy
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Dutch Book, from 1517, contains Italian playing cards
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Sermones de Ludo Cum Aliis
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Knights Templar win Vatican reprieve after 700 years
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Influence For Hermit?
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Jew Cisian dozen
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Useful reference - Arne Jonsson
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Overly complicated game rules?
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The Book of Fate, a chapbook
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dodal and payen = same engraver ?
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Pantheism and Trump XXI
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5 Decks in the Ambras Collection
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Leber-article, note to 1461
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Playing Cards: The Original Divinatory Tool of the Ancients?
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Samuel Singer History of Playing Cards
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The Tonto Naipero A Nineteenth-Century Apache Playing Card Artist
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Magian Tarok by Stephen Flowers (aka Edred Thorsson)
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Latin Tarot Key (Theory)
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Repeal of the Witchcraft Act
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The astrological Fardar of 78
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Strength and the story of Samson
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Card sequence: Star, Moon, Sun in the Tarot & some discussions on the Minchiate
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Tarot's Natal Astrological Chart
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The Four Horseman or 4 Caballeros...
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Chinese Ancient-styled "Money-suited" Cards
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World's "Oldest" Novel, 54 Symbols and Cards
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Alchemy and Renaissance Tarots
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Pre-occult interpretations of ancient tarot decks?
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A Knaverly Fool or A Foolish Joker?
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Circle of Bonafacio Bembo
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The Devil and the Angel in Sicily
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Is the Portuguese Pattern Extinct?
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Japanese Decks - 1500s-2000s outline/patterns-folklore-ideas
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Just an idea
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what does the word TAROT mean
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The Fool and the Man in the Moon
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Medieval Calendars and Tarot
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Composite images from the 15th century
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Konrad Bollstatter, died 1482/83
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Krampus and the Cary Sheet
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Neo-pythagorism and Tarot : Alain Bougearel's theory
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How many pairs?
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Aleister Crowley and the Knights Templar
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French Wikipedia : Le Soleil
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Tarot Mosaics at the Chateau de Avenieres
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Prudence - why does she have two faces?
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Is There a Link?
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The Unmentionable
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Winged Knights
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Delphi
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Plutarch (Guarino, Boiardo-poem, Sola-Busca)
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What is the game "Scartino"
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French Wikipedia : Tempérance
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Na'ib & TDM
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Dante and The Tarot
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Le Jeu des Quatre Couleurs
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Face-card designations on JSTOR
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Empress as Europa
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Picatrix - Full Latin text
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Where in The World is Carlo della Rocca?
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Tarocchi appropriati game thread
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Museums With Tarot Decks
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Has anyone noticed [Visconti and Marseille details]
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Alchemy, Hermeticism & Tarot?
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Links to Emblem books?
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A Different Route Considered?
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Teofilo Folengo 1527, Bologna 1750, Robert Place 2005
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how many nicolas conver old decks remains
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Muses And Mantegna
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Russia and The Tarot
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Shakespeare and the Tarot
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Fibonacci and the Tarot trumps : a conjecture
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Gerbert, Otto, and Tarot, circa 1000 Anno Domino
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Most significant historical decks
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La Très Sainte Trinosophie
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The Fool: "Innocent" or Tormented Outsider?
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Aniconism and the early Tarot
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A tarot history quiz
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'Egyptian' roots of the Tarot
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The Medieval Housebook
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Flags of the Visconti-Sforza
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A Martinist or Masonic connection? from when?
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