Tarot Mysteries Episode 01 "The Origins of Tarot"
Official Release Post
In the first of the Tarot Mysteries series we explore the historical origins and development of card games with a focus on the game of tarot.
Shorts:
Playing French Tarot
The Origin of Playing Cards
Mamluk Playing Cards
Medieval German Playing Cards
Follow on Socials:
X
Facebook
Instagram
Telegram
Works Cited or Consulted
Intro
Farinone Battista (~1880),
McClosky’s
wikipedia.org/wiki/Trionfi_(cards)
Girolamo da Cremona (1451-1483),
The Triumphs of Love, Chastity, and Death and the Triumphs of Fame, Time, and Divinity,
Denver Art Museum
16th century Florentine School Portrait of Francesco di Petrarco (1304-1374),
Sotheby’s
Grimaud, Jeu de Tarot (1910),
Wikimedia Commons
Michael Dummett with Sylvia Mann,
The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City (1980) [pg. 26, 87, 178-191]
Gertrude Moakley,
The Tarot Cards Painted By Bonifacio Bembo (1966) [pg. 43-51]
Thierry Depaulis, Entre farsa et barzelletta: jeux de cartes italiens autours de 1500,
The Playing Card, Vol. 37 No. 2 (2008) [pg. 89-102]
Thierry Depaulis, Des "cartes communément appelées taraux" 1ère Partie,
The Playing Card, Vol. 32, No. 5 (2004) [pg. 199-205]
On the Etymology of Tarot
Francesco Berni,
Capitolo del Gioco Della Primiera (1526) [pg. 18]
Francesco Piscina, (via LeTarot.it)
Discorso sopra la significatione de' tarocchi (1565) [pg. 26]
John Florio,
A worlde of wordes, or, Most copious, and exact dictionarie in Italian and English (1598)
Giovan Giorgio Alione,
Frotula de le dòne (~1494)
Andrea Vitali (via LeTarot.it),
1494 (2008)
Paolo Antonio Tosi,
Maccheronee di cinque poeti italiani del secolo XV: Tifi Odassi, Anonimo padovano, Bassano mantovano, Giovan Giorgio Alione, Fossa cremonese (1864) [pg. 65-67]
wiktionary.org/wiki/ταραχή#Ancient_Greek
Giovanni Castoni,
Aldine Venice Lexicon Graeco-Latinum (1497)
* also Dionysis and Tarot and Tarot History Forum
Flavio Alberto Lolllio Ferarese (via tarock.info),
Against the Game of Tarot (1550)
wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_orange
*see also comments on this thread: languagehat.com/the-citrine-origins-of-tarot
Angela's Symposium (YouTube@drangelapuca),
History of TAROT. From Game to Divination, youtube.com/watch?v=KEpqcOYiV8s
* also etimo.it/?term=taroccare
On the Origins of Playing Cards
A. E. Waite,
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911) [pg. 7-8]
Rider-Waite Tarot (1909),
Wikimedia Commons
Dummett (1980) [pg. 164-191]
Stuart Kaplan,
The Encyclopedia of Tarot, Vol. I (1978) [pg. 12-23]
Mahjong Money Cards,
sloperama.com
Dashavatara Ganjifa Cards,
rooftopapp.com/art-forms/ganjifa
Helen Farley,
A Cultural History of Tarot (2009) [pg. 10]
Mamluk Nã'ib Cards (~1500),
The World of Playing Cards
Modern Nã'ib Reconstructions,
tarotquest.fr
Earliest Mentions of Playing Cards in Europe
Kaplan (1978) [pg. 24-34]
Jaume March,
Libre de Concordances (1371)
wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodblock_printing
John of Rheinfelden,
Tractatus de moribus et disciplina humane conversationis (1377)
Arne Jönssen (via trionfi.com),
Der Ludus cartularum moralisatus des Johannes von Rheinfelden (1998)
Hofämterspiel (1455),
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Stuttgart Playing Cards (~1430),
Landesmuseum Stuttgart
wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_pack
Swiss Karnöffel Deck (1530),
karten-haus.ch
Dummett (1980) [pg. 184]
Anon. Danish Artist,
Saint Bernardino of Siena (1520),
Statens Museum for Kunst via wikidata.org
Benozzo Gozzoli (1420-1497),
Procession of the Magi (detail, 1459-60), Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence
The Marziano Pack
Jacopo Bellini (1400-1470),
Portrait of Iacopo Antonio Marcello (1397-1464)
Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris via wga.hu
wikipedia.org/wiki/Provveditore
17th Century Florentine School Portrait of Isabella Duchess of Loraine (1400-1453),
Uffizi Gallery, Florence via Wikimedia Commons
Michelino da Besozzo,
Dama con falcone pellegrino e cane (~1400) Louvre
Marziano Tarot (2015),
robertmplacetarot.com
Franco Pratesi (via naibi.net),
The Earliest Tarot Pack Known (1989)
Ross Caldwell (via Trionfi.com),
Marziano da Tortona translation (2022)
Farley (2009) [pg. 35-38]
Card Order in the Old Italian Game
Michael Dummett with Decker & Depaulis,
A Wicked Pack of Cards (1996) [pg. 37]
*also Dummett (1980) [pg. 25]
Robert Steele,
A notice of the Ludus Triumphorum and some early Italian card games,
Archaeologia, Vol. 57 (1900)
wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Maria_Boiardo
Matteo Maria Boiardo,
I Tarrochi (1530)
Dummett (1980) [pg. 77, 420-422]
Outro
Visconti di Modrone (~1442),
Yale University Library
Cristina Fiorini, I tarocchi della Collezione Rothschild al Louvre: nuove proposte di lettura,
The Playing Card, Vol. 35, No. 1 (2006)
Rothschild-Bassano (~1435),
Louvre
Dummett (1980) [pg. 393, 68-67]