Tarot Mysteries Episode 02 "The Oldest Tarot Cards"
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In the second episode of the Tarot Mysteries series we take a look at the artifact tarot cards that have come down to us from the Italian Renaissance.
Shorts
The Oldest Tarot Pack
d’Este Tarot
Visconti di Modrone
Pierpont-Morgan Bergamo
Uncut Sheets
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Notes:
the 2 missing non-trump cards in the Pierpont-Morgan Bergamo deck were wrong in the video, they should have been the the Knight of Coins & 3 of Swords
See the addendum for 3 additional collections not mentioned in this video
Works Cited or Consulted
Master Lists
Michael Dummett with Sylvia Mann,
The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City (1980) [pg. 68-76]
Michael Dummett,
Il mondo e l'angelo: I tarocchi e la loro storia (1993)
Via Tarot History Forum
Stuart Kaplan,
The Encyclopedia of Tarot, Vol. II (1986)
Florence
Hartmann Schedel,
The Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)
Library of Congress
Rothschild-Bassano (~1435),
Louvre
Cristina Fiorini, I tarocchi della Collezione Rothschild al Louvre: nuove proposte di lettura,
The Playing Card, Vol. 35, No. 1 (2006)
Charles VI or Gringonneur Tarot (~1470)
BNF Gallica
Toscanelli & Ptolemy identification via Tarot History Forum
D'este Tarot (~1473)
Yale University Library
Dummett (1980) [pg. 69]
Alessandro Sforza Tarot (~1450's)
cards.old.no/t
henri-maitre.fr
Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464), Sforza Triptych,
Wikimedia Commons
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Emilia Maggio, New Insights into the So-called Alessandro Sforza Deck,
The Playing Card, Vol. 44, No. 4 (April - June 2016)
Museo Correr Tarot,
Flickr - Catcetra
Thierry Depaulis, Tarots et autres cartes du XVe siècle exposés en 1880 à Turin,
The Playing Card, Vol. 46, No. 3 (January - March 2018)
Milan
Visconti di Modrone (~1442),
Yale University Library
Pisanello, Codex Vallardi (1450)
Wikimedia Commons
Bonifacio Bembo,
San Francesco riceve le stigmate,
Accademia Carrara
Bonifacio Bembo,
St. Julian,
Brera Pinacoteca
Bonifacio Bembo,
James the Elder,
Brera Pinacoteca
Franceschino Zavattari,
Theodolinda Cycle (scene No. 24) (1430-47)
Web Gallery of Art
Mary K. Greer - The Visconti Tarots
Giordano Berti,
Storia dei tarocchi: veritĂ e leggende sulle carte piĂ¹ misteriose del mondo (2007)
Visconti Ducat - Numista
Brera-Brambilla (~1442-1447),
Brera Pinacoteca
Pierpont-Morgan Bergamo (1451),
The Morgan Library & Museum
Accademia Carrara
Bonifacio Bembo,
Portrait of Francesco Sforza (1460),
Wikimedia Commons
Gertrude Moakley,
The Tarot Cards Painted By Bonifacio Bembo (1966) [pg. 70-71]
Stuart Kaplan,
The Enclyopedia of Tarot, Vol. I (1978) [61-62]
Ludovico Lipparini,
Portrait of Count Leopold Cicognara (1825)
Web Gallery of Art
Antonio Cicognara,
Saint George and the Princess (1475)
Wikimedia Commons
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Kaplan (1978) [pg. 99]
Tozzi Cards (~1455)
The Connoisseur (March 1964) [pg. 54-60]
Loose Fool Card,
Invaluable
Cochi Collection,
Le Tarot
Loose Justice Card,
Invaluable
Victoria & Albert Museum Cards
Lombardy II,
cards.old.no/t
Bonomi Cards,
Christie’s
Marzoli J Batons,
Sotheby’s
Biedak K Cups,
Christie’s
Ferrell Diavolo,
Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame
Guidhall Library Tarocchi Cards,
Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards
Goldschmidt Cards,
Spielkartenmuseum - Leinfelden
Jack of Swords and Jack of Coins, Milan (~1450)
henri-maitre.fr
Franceschino Zavattari,
Theolinda Cycle
Fresco from Monza Cathedral
Letizia Dannery,
Au musée français de la carte à jouer, les tarots enluminés de la Renaissance italienne,
L’Express (2022)
Loose Q Coins,
Invaluable
Uncut Sheets
Metropolitan/Budapest Sheet,
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Rosenwald Sheet,
National Gallery of Art
Rothschild/Beaux Arts Sheets,
Tarot Meditations
Tarot Bolonais (1650),
BNF Gallica
Agnola Hebreo Devil Card,
The British Museum
Giovanni da Modeno, Inferno (Detail) 1410,
San Petronio, Bologna
Cary Sheet,
Yale University Library
Jean Noblet (1642),
Tarot Meditations