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Re: Hello! - and kind question for help w.r.t. the etymology of tarot

For the IPCS ... did the IPCS organ ever note something about this Forum? Can somebody quote there something? In 13 years of the existence? Or about the Aeclectic site, which was older? Hm .... http://forum.tarothistory.com/search.php?keywords=ipcs The IPCS discussion forum has been up since 2012, ...

Re: Hello! - and kind question for help w.r.t. the etymology of tarot

And yes, people really should join the IPCS. It's not expensive, about 16 US dollars a year, if I remember correctly. How are you getting this bargain? For print and digital, the subscription for Europeans outside the UK is £44 , which works out to €50.99 (today's rate). Outside of Europe, includin...

Re: Hello! - and kind question for help w.r.t. the etymology of tarot

My own view is that card games which break the ranking rules of court cards, or pip cards, like making the ace or another number high, are already assumed by Filippo Maria's 1420 decree about the "old and correct way" to play cards, as well as by John of Rheinfelden's statement about how s...

Re: Hello! - and kind question for help w.r.t. the etymology of tarot

Recent research by Jonas Richter suggests that the Nördlingen reference to Karnöffel in 1426 is mythical, a conflation of references from secondary sources, which Schreiber brought together. The next earliest is in 1446. You'll have to be a member of IPCS to read the information on their forum, I do...

Re: Jewish-Christian interactions in Italy before 1500

Thanks for pointing out the counting. I naïvely assumed letters, rather than numbers. The path for 11 goes from Gedulah to Netzach, and does indeed show Yod-Alef. Paths 15 and 16 are where we might expect complications, since the numbers could write abbreviations for the name of God Yod-Heh and Yod-...

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