Well, the book is of 1556 ... but it is declared, that it is of de Meung, who is much earlier. It was tried to interprete this as a publisher trick. But there are indications, that older manuscripts existed, a least already in 15th century. Likely the whole is connected to older Geomancy. Then there...

marco wrote: Since I am currently reading some astrological stuff, I find fascinating, although uncommon, the interpretation of "La maison de Dieu" as the ninth astrological house.

Marco

see to this theme also:
http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=118352

At amazon.de I found others with the lowest price of 3.50 Euro, but they demand 15 Euro for transport to oversea destinations. That's really a bad joke ... The originals ... the originals were Greek-Roman gods, weren't they? ... :-) ... in Cologne there was a Kölsch original Tarot, which knew Empres...

On a market for used things I found a remake (1998) of an old Tarot deck from ca. 1790, together with a book of not much worth in German language. I paid 4 Euro for both. Researching the web for it, I found that it is variously offered for not much money, especially by German amazon. Peter Ortmann i...

hi, Various deep changes in the representation of the Tarot Museum - the work took two monthes http://trionfi.com/m/ - Tarot Museum, now with integrated Compare Function and deck lists http://trionfi.com/i/ - Tarot card Iconography section http://trionfi.com/i/tarot-andrea-vitali/ - Tarot Iconograph...

hi Robert, nice to see you again. ***** Regarding the game: it's not a running game as earlier suspected, but a sort "Kegeln", a shooting game, the shooting stone is painted on the board. The upper person is not from Venetia, as before analysed, but should be a representative of the pope w...

The state of the puppets on the round playing ground with the city names seem to indicate, what happened to the cities during the war. Rimini had been taken by the pope in the war, "Rim." is a fallen puppet. The puppet Pa. = Padova is upright. The city was taken during the war, but only fo...

"1510" on the picture with a "Venezia" in the middle means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Julius_II "The achievements of the League soon outstripped the primary intention of Julius. By one single battle, the Battle of Agnadello on (14 May 1509), the dominion of Venice in ...