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New edition of Lost Envoy - The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare

The folks at Strange Attractor Press, in collaboration with the Magic Circle Museum in London, are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to produce a revised edition of the long-out-of-print book Lost Envoy - The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare , along with a facsimile reproduction of Spare's lo...

Re: Is the Bologna cartomancy sheet really pre-1750?

Thanks Ross! I'll add that to my list of tricks for browsing Gallica. I'm sure the site has all sorts of bells and whistles I've not yet encountered. I've managed to stay afloat so far simply because I'm stubborn enough to go through every single one of the thousands of search results to find what I...

Re: Is the Bologna cartomancy sheet really pre-1750?

Hey Mike! Long time no see. I've been reading through your new thread with great interest. Think you might be on to something... =) I did some digging. After much frustration and gnashing of teeth, I managed to locate five copies of Mélanges Tirés d'une Grande Bibliothèque, Volume 2 online (see link...

Re: The Chariot

Interesting... The " Italian parade " explanation is one of my top three theories as to the origin of the 22 Tarot Trumps, the others being the Danse Macabre artistic motif and the Great Chain of Being from Greco-Roman, and later, Medieval philosophy. Could even be a product of all three! ...

Re: The Chariot

Hey Ross! Thanks for the links to the old forum posts! Made for some interesting reading. Wish I could have been around for those earlier discussions, but I'd never even heard of Tarot cards until a few years ago. Guess I'm late to the party again... =P I stumbled onto the Mantegna painting by accid...

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