Obviously, we are only interested in one line in particular of the inventory, but even the nearby lines are very useful for identifying the context of the conservation of the playing cards, evidently among objects reserved for family use, all of which are of no particular value. The same line of greatest interest contains more useful information.1 cupboard cloth
2 pieces of cupboard cloths
12 pairs of old underwear and several fabric socks
3 mended napkins and 1 with holes
29 pillowcases of several sizes with nets and without nets
8 hand towels of several sizes
1 women's handkerchief
12 napkins of various sizes, both good and worn-out
1 children's shirt and 1 piece of linen fabric with several rags
1 little mattress for a small bed a bordo [near a wall or a big bed?]
1 pair of much-used naibi or playing cards [paio di naibi overo charte da giuchare tristi]
4 tin plates…
4 tin plates…
13 small tin bowls…
17 tin bowls…
3 tin plates…
1 pair of spurs
1 children's small harpsichord
That old naibi could be found in the company of objects of little value could no longer arouse a strong surprise to us. Here, however, we find a pack of triumphs next to holey linens and seven pairs of used underwear!
1 local hand towel . . . with holes
1 local hand towel with holes . . .
1 Parisian-style hand towel
1 white Neapolitan blanket with more holes
1 pair of triumphs in a bag
6 used shabby overcoats for men
7 pairs of used men's underwear
1 pillow covered with taffeta of Brano
1 Milanese knife with black handle
Statistics: Posted by mikeh — 23 Mar 2024, 05:50
Of course, two dozen of cards can't just be 24 playing cards! These are, as in other cases of this kind, two dozen decks. Among other things, it often happened in those centuries that only a dozen decks had a price expressed in whole numbers, of florins or lire. Having a reserve of 24 decks of playing cards for the haberdashery indicates that the trade in such items was quite abundant at the time.1 chest with drawers at the guardian in Florence
6 pieces of silk fringe . . . of several colors
7 pieces of wide silk ribbon of several colors . . .
10 pieces of assorted wide silk ribbon of several colors
40 arm’s lengths [braccia] of silk cord of several colors
40 arm’s lengths of ribbon of several colors
40 arm’s lengths of yarn cord of several colors
6 oz of silk for sewing of several colors
30 arms’ lengths of fringe of thread and 30 of silk of several colors
12 pounds of yarn of several colors
4 new charnaiuoli [note 10] without straps
200 brass and silver eyelets?
2 dozen of playing cards [charte da giuchare]
1 dozen of parchments
2 dozen of mirrors in wood and 2 dozen dolls [note 11] out of the wood
Statistics: Posted by mikeh — 22 Mar 2024, 11:18
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Statistics: Posted by mikeh — 06 Mar 2024, 13:17
Unfortunately, on the Florentine side De Giorgio only claims this Florence skyline for the "late" and "neoclassical" forms, and with Yale's 14 cards we are presumably dealing with the "early" pattern. His example does not provide a dating. According to Giambattista Monzal (The Playing Card 50:1, July -Sept 2021, pp. 23-4) the British Museum has specimens, differing only in the tax stamps and signatures of the concessioner, from before 1751, perhaps even going back to the late 1600s. Looking at the BM's decks online, I see the signature of a Molinelli on the card of Cancer. See https://www.britishmuseum.org/collectio ... 96-0501-34. That could be any time between 1682 and 1720 in Florence, or 1736-1751 in Livorno, according to Monzal's chart. The stamp may say more, but I cannot read it. Another, online in Gallica, has a Molinelli stamp on its Cancer indicating 1712-1716: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b ... rk=64378;0. It is true that these are all engravings, and the Yale 14 are woodcuts, but perhaps there were woodcut versions we don't know about.Tra le caratteristiche delle carte dei mazzi di Minchiate spesso è stato rilevato che il profilo della città presente nel trionfo delle Trombe può solitamente identificare la città di produzione del mazzo stesso. Effettivamente, in diversi mazzi di
Minchiate su questa carta, in basso sotto la figura dell’Angelo, si identificano chiaramente le due torri (degli Asinelli e della Garisenda) caratteristiche della città di Bologna [Fig. 13] e in altri mazzi invece la cupola del Duomo, il campanile di Giotto
e il corso di un fiume Secondo la mia opinione, questo è vero per tutti i mazzi di Minchiate prodotti a Bologna, per i mazzi
di Minchiate di Firenze che l’IPCS identifica come forma tardiva e per la successiva forma “Neoclassica” da questa derivata nell’Ottocento, ma non per tutti i mazzi di Minchiate che l’I.P.C.S. identifica come forma precoce. [note 37: I.P.C.S.: Pattern Sheet n. 28 e n. 29].
Among the characteristics of the cards in Minchiate decks, it has often been noted that the profile of the city present in the Triumph of the Trumpets can usually identify the city of production of the deck itself. Indeed, in several Minchiate decks, at the bottom of this card under the figure of the Angel, the two towers (of the Asinelli and of the Garisenda) characteristic of the city of Bologna are clearly identified [Fig. 13] and in other decks the dome of the Duomo, Giotto's bell tower and the course of a river. In my opinion, this is true for all the Minchiate decks produced in Bologna, for the Minchiate decks of Florence which the IPCS identifies as a late form and for the subsequent “Neoclassical” form derived from this in the nineteenth century, but not for all the Minchiate decks that the I.P.C.S. identifies as an early form. [37].
In the article, the cards are overlaid onto one another so that they will fit on the page. In the case of the Bolognese 3 of Cups, I inadvertently cut off his caption. It is from a reproduction by the Museo Fournier, he says. (Online, it corresponds to an "Edicion del Prado," http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks07/d05114/d05114.htm.)Se si analizzano i diversi mazzi di Minchiate attribuibili rispettivamente a Firenze (FI) e a Bologna (BO), su alcune carte si notano anche altre differenze.
Sul 4 di Denari delle Minchiate prodotte a Bologna invece della caratteristica figura di un elefante, propria delle Minchiate di Firenze [Fig. 15 a], si trova un cartiglio con la scritta “carte fine” e il nome dell’insegna del fabbricante [Fig. 15b].
Sul 3 di Coppe delle Minchiate di Firenze vi è la figura di un probabile leone [Fig. 16a], su quelle di Bologna vi è ancora la scritta “CARTE FINE IN BOLOGNA” [Fig. 16b] o solo “CARTE FINE”.
Sul 4 di Coppe delle Minchiate di Firenze vi è la figura di una scimmietta che si guarda allo specchio [Fig. 17a], su quelle di Bologna vi è il disegno dell’insegna del fabbricante [Fig.17b].
If we analyze the different Minchiate decks attributable to Florence (FI) and Bologna (BO) respectively, other differences can also be seen on some cards.
On the 4 of Coins of the Minchiate produced in Bologna, instead of the characteristic figure of an elephant, typical of the Minchiate of Florence [Fig. 15a], there is a scroll with the writing “carte fine” and the name of the manufacturer's sign [Fig.
15b].
On the 3 of Cups of the Minchiate of Florence there is the figure of a probable lion [Fig. 16a], on those of Bologna there is still the writing “CARTE FINE IN BOLOGNA” [Fig. 16b] or just “CARTE FINE.”
On the 4 of Cups of the Minchiate in Florence there is the figure of a little monkey looking at himself in the mirror [Fig. 17a], on those of Bologna there is a drawing of the manufacturer's sign [Fig.17b].
He is concerned only with Tuscan decks in his article. The differences with Bologna remain untouched. Below are his figures 32 and 33, along with Yale's Libra card.While the stamp on the Yale Libra card is not very legible, it is reasonably of the same sort, and not a tax stamp, which would have been on Acqua, for a card of 1751-1781. (From 1781 to 1800. That stamp helps to confirm an at least Tuscan origin for the deck. And since at least one Libra in Florence with an Acqua stamp does not have the stamp, it seems to me that its presence confirms the 1765-1781 dating I proposed in my previous post, as a product close to the 1781 to which, except for these Yale cards, we would think the practice started.From 1 January 1781 the management of the stamp duty passed directly to the Amministrazione Generale (General Administration). The stamp becomes the fairly arabesque AG monogram surrounded by the inscription Bollo delle carte di Toscana (Stamp of Tuscany Cards) and is affixed to the trump XXVII (Aries) Fig. 32.
The period of the Stampa delle Carte di Firenze (Florence’s Cards Printing) also begins, marked by a stamp on the trump XXIIII (Libra). There are two versions of this stamp. The first, more elaborate, has the monogram SCF intertwined and written in a mirror image in two semicircles surrounded by the words Stampa delle carte di Firenze. The later simplified version has the three letter FCS written in italics surmounted by the same initials written in small letters in block capitals Fig. 33.
All of the decks found so far are woodcut decks of the EMP type, the differences in the iconography of the various decks are minimal and are essentially reduced to a different level of detail.
Statistics: Posted by mikeh — 03 Mar 2024, 01:04
*************I have said that every year brings forth some new consideration, and Dr.Thierens promises another work, while the speculation which has just been adventured speaks of things unattempted and yet conceived in themind. There is no intention signified; but I know what emblems wouldadorn it. How things will stand with the Tarot in days to come may loomtherefore vaguely; but obviously there are activities to come. There is,however, one side of the subject on which no horizon opens. As to wherethe Trumps Major originated, how and with whom, there is no conclaveof adepts to tell us and no isolated student, holding evidential warrants. At the moment we can look only for more speculations and more dreamsto come.It follows that the true symbol belonging to Trump MajorNo. XII, though it is by no means that of Lévi, is not a Hanged Man at all; but it will continue to be depicted in this manner unless and until theGreater Arcana are issued by the authority of another Secret Circle, which so far has never testified officially concerning itself in the outerchannels of research.
ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE
Statistics: Posted by Huck — 02 Mar 2024, 10:23
It is true that the latter, the former duke of Lorraine, became grand duke of Tuscany in 1737 and was founder of the Hapsburg-Lorraine line in Tuscany, but that is in hindsight. Before the marriage contract, Tuscany it was simply the dukedom of Francis Stephen, one of many states titularly ruled over him as Holy Roman Emperor. His coat of arms reflects that status (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_I ... an_Emperor). A version of that same coat of arms also appears on his Tuscan coins, as shown in the Wikipedia article previously cited. Accounts of the Hapsburg-Lorraine coats of arms in Tuscany date its characteristic dynastic coat of arms, one version of which is on the backs of some of the 14 cards, only to 1765, the year that the son, Peter Leopold, became duke. The first Wikipedia article cited is rather good on the time periods for the various coats of arms and flags, and one coin. These can be confirmed on other sites.In 1763, when nuptial agreements for the marriage of the imperial couple's second surviving son, Leopold, and the Infanta of Spain, Maria Luisa of Bourbon, were stipulated, Tuscany was erected into a secundogeniture.[50] Thus, upon the death of Francis I, it was Leopold who directly succeeded him on the throne of the Grand Duchy.[51]
He does not give sources for this information, but he does show us a "Poverone" back - it is identical to the one that Hargrave attributed to Bologna, with the same backwards N. (He says, p. 23, that it is from a deck in the British Museum. I wish he had given an accession number, because I have not been able to locate it online. Perhaps someone else can find it.) But if the only source of that information is the backs of the cards, how do we know they are from Florence and not Bologna?Also in Florence there was the use of the signs by manufacturers. These included Colomba, Fortuna, Meschino, Paragone, Poverino and Poverone.
De Giorgio gives us an example of each. His Florentine example happens to come precisely from what he says is a "Poverone." You will notice that his "King of Cups" is much like what Franco called a "Queen of Cups." I put that card to the right of the row.Ma la distinzione più sostanziale tra le Minchiate delle due città è la rappresentazione dei RE. Nessuno dei quattro RE delle Minchiate di Firenze è rappresentato con la barba [Fig. 18], mentre nelle Minchiate di Bologna i due Re dei semi lunghi (Spade e Bastoni) sono senza barba, mentre i due Re dei semi corti (Denari e Coppe) sono con la barba [Fig. 19].
Statistics: Posted by mikeh — 29 Feb 2024, 13:27
For these playing cards, I think it is necessary to go into more detail in the description. First of all, it is said that the set only entered the library in 2010, which may explain why no specific studies have yet been carried out on the subject.Title on cover of rules: Regole sopra il Gioco delle Minchiate. In Italian.
Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund, 2010.
Collection that includes manuscript rules by an unidentified author, possibly in Florence, Italy, for playing the card game minchiate, circa 1700-1750, as well as fourteen contemporary hand-tinted printed playing cards made by “Al Poverone,” a card maker active in Bologna, Italy, during the eighteenth century.
We know that the Medici dynasty died out in 1737 and was followed by the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty. In short, as regards the date, this coat of arms can make us exclude a dating of ourCoat of arms - Habsburg-Lorraine-Tuscany - On the smooth shield the coat of arms is depicted in three parts: on the left the Habsburg arms with a red transverse band on a solid gold background; in the center the Lorraine coat of arms with a red stripe divided by white in its center; on the right the Medici coat of arms with six balls, three of them on a solid gold background. [Note 6]
Statistics: Posted by mikeh — 28 Feb 2024, 03:21
Statistics: Posted by Huck — 24 Feb 2024, 06:55