The red and silver arms on some of the Visonti-Sforza cards are the wapon of the commune of Florence. I stated in another discussion that the Visconti-Sforza cards were possibly made in 1454 at the occasion of the peace of Lodi, and that the wapon of Florence was added to the cards in honor to Cosim...

Thanks for all this valuable information that whips out my suspicion that Dodal could be a synonym for Payen. In French, Daudal and Dodal are pronounced in the same way, so this confusion on administrative certificates is easy to understand. In Dodat (or Daudat), the letter 't' is not pronounced, so...

Hello Nathaniel, I think we agree about some subjects. The history of Tarot is extremely fascinating, and it would be fantastic if other renaissance cards were discovered that could help us in our research. If there are new evidences, I will be one of the first to embrace them. I do not state that I...

Thanks a lot for your reaction. What do you call an incomplete deck? Many decks exist that are trumps only. Are they incomplete? No, they are trumps only, not incomplete. There are card decks with only 32 cards. Are they incomplete? No, the game played with them require only 32 cards. You really thi...

Many pages have been written about the dating of the Visconti-Sforza deck. Personally, I believe it has been created in 1454 as explained in another threat on this forum (https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1621&start=10) and illustrated on my own website (https://tarotwheel....

Hello MikeH. Thank you for this fantastic discussion on the Visconti di Modrone trumps. Without having all your knowledge, I discussed the Visconti di Modrone trumps on my website in 2017. Without proposing an order, I came to the same conclusion about the number of trumps and which trump cards are ...

Hello Huck, thanks for your comment. I changed the page name, please use the next link that is working fine: https://tarotwheel.net/history/tarot%20 ... roups.html

Without going into occult decks that have their origins in the Tarot de Marseille decks, I've tried to distinguish the different types of decks that are based on the original Tarot de Marseille pattern. You can find it here: https://www.tarotwheel.net/history/tarot%20development/the%20tarot%20of%20m...

Hello MikeH. Thanks for attraction my attention on the fact that I did not give all needed information for the Visconti-Sforza card. I corrected the page. Concerning the B.O.T.A. card, colors are effectively important. However, I could not find a version with colors that pleased me, so I preferred u...

Hello Huck, The Tarot Siciliano is a branch of the Tarot that developed relatively late in the 18th Century. It was based on the Tarocchino and Minchiate decks. In my article, I tried to give a broad overview of the development of the World card, so impossible to show everything. Card 19 of the Taro...