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Its trumps are Roman soldiers with names, its minors are scenes, and one of them became the most copied card in tarot.", "holding_source": "Wikimedia Commons", "source_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sola-Busca_tarot_deck", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/sola-busca" }, { "slug": "cary-sheet", "name": "The Cary Sheet", "archive_no": "7", "approx_date": "c. 1500", "year_from": 1500, "century": 16, "kind": "tarot", "cards_total": "7", "cards_surviving": "7", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "Unknown Milanese printer", "origin": "Milan; now in the Cary Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale", "description": "One uncut sheet from Milan, about 1500, and on it the Marseille tarot being born: the oldest known ancestor of the pattern, crayfish and all.", "holding_source": "Yale Beinecke Library", "source_url": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/11032228", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/cary-sheet" }, { "slug": "tarot-de-paris", "name": "The Tarot de Paris", "archive_no": "8", "approx_date": "c. 1600-1650", "year_from": 1600, "century": 17, "kind": "tarot", "cards_total": "78", "cards_surviving": "78", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "An unnamed Paris cardmaker; the banner FAICT A PARIS PAR was never filled in", "origin": "Paris; the only known copy is at the Bibliothèque nationale de France", "description": "The oldest complete French tarot, and the strangest: an early 1600s Paris pack whose maker signed FAICT A PARIS PAR and never filled in his name.", "holding_source": "Gallica (BnF)", "source_url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105109624", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/tarot-de-paris" }, { "slug": "vieville-tarot", "name": "The Jacques Viéville Tarot", "archive_no": "9", "approx_date": "c. 1650", "year_from": 1650, "century": 17, "kind": "tarot", "cards_total": "78", "cards_surviving": "78", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "Jacques Viéville, cardmaker, Paris", "origin": "Paris; the only known copy is at the Bibliothèque nationale de France", "description": "Noblet's Paris contemporary and his opposite: the same city, the same years, and a wholly different tarot, with an upright Hanged Man and rhymes printed in the pips.", "holding_source": "Gallica (BnF)", "source_url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10510963k", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/vieville-tarot" }, { "slug": "noblet-tarot", "name": "The Jean Noblet Tarot", "archive_no": "10", "approx_date": "c. 1650-1659", "year_from": 1650, "century": 17, "kind": "tarot", "cards_total": "78", "cards_surviving": "73", "cards_lost": "5", "maker": "Jean Noblet, cardmaker at the faubourg Saint-Germain, Paris", "origin": "Paris; now at the Bibliothèque nationale de France", "description": "The oldest surviving Tarot de Marseille, printed in Paris around 1650: nine centimeters of bold woodcut line, stencil color, and a Fool caught with his breeches down.", "holding_source": "Gallica (BnF)", "source_url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105109641", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/noblet-tarot" }, { "slug": "mitelli-tarocchino", "name": "The Mitelli Tarocchino", "archive_no": "11", "approx_date": "c. 1660-1665", "year_from": 1660, "century": 17, "kind": "tarot", "cards_total": "62", "cards_surviving": "62", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, etcher, for Count Filippo Bentivoglio, Bologna", "origin": "Bologna; this set of uncolored etchings is at the Bibliothèque nationale de France", "description": "The one Baroque master's tarot: Mitelli redraws Bologna's 62-card tarocchino as pure etched theater, Atlas for a World and a lantern-bearer for a Star.", "holding_source": "Gallica (BnF)", "source_url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10537341m", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/mitelli-tarocchino" }, { "slug": "dodal-tarot", "name": "The Jean Dodal Tarot", "archive_no": "12", "approx_date": "c. 1701-1715", "year_from": 1701, "century": 18, "kind": "tarot", "cards_total": "78", "cards_surviving": "78", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "Jean Dodal, master card maker, Lyon; the woodcuts are attributed to the engraver Jacques Mermé of Chambéry", "origin": "Lyon; now at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (Paul Marteau collection)", "description": "A Lyon workshop's export tarot from around 1701, the oldest complete deck of the Marseille pattern's Type I line, with \"made for abroad\" stamped right on the cards.", "holding_source": "Gallica (BnF)", "source_url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10537343h", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/dodal-tarot" }, { "slug": "besancon-tarot", "name": "The Besançon Tarot", "archive_no": "13", "approx_date": "blocks dated 1748; this printing nineteenth century", "year_from": 1748, "century": 18, "kind": "tarot", "cards_total": "78", "cards_surviving": "77", "cards_lost": "1", "maker": "The Renoult workshop, Besançon; blocks signed and dated 1748", "origin": "Besançon; at the Bibliothèque nationale de France", "description": "The Marseille tarot with its clergy swapped out: Juno and her peacock for the Popess, Jupiter for the Pope, the pattern the border towns printed for careful markets.", "holding_source": "Gallica (BnF)", "source_url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10543303s", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/besancon-tarot" }, { "slug": "conver-tarot", "name": "The Conver Tarot de Marseille", "archive_no": "14", "approx_date": "blocks of 1760; this printing c. 1809-1833", "year_from": 1760, "century": 18, "kind": "tarot", "cards_total": "78", "cards_surviving": "78", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "Nicolas Conver, master cardmaker at Marseille; printed from his blocks by the house that kept his name", "origin": "Marseille; this copy in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (Paul Marteau collection)", "description": "Nicolas Conver's Marseille blocks of 1760, the deck behind Grimaud's Ancien Tarot de Marseille and nearly every Marseille restoration since.", "holding_source": "Gallica (BnF)", "source_url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10537352g", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/conver-tarot" }, { "slug": "petit-etteilla", "name": "The Petit Etteilla", "archive_no": "15", "approx_date": "designed 1770s; this printing c. 1860", "year_from": 1770, "century": 18, "kind": "oracle", "cards_total": "33", "cards_surviving": "33", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "After Etteilla's design of the 1770s; this wood-engraved edition, Paris", "origin": "Paris; at the Bibliothèque nationale de France", "description": "Etteilla's first invention, older than his tarot: thirty-two ordinary playing cards wrapped in printed meanings, plus the card that bears his name.", "holding_source": "Gallica (BnF)", "source_url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105138637", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/petit-etteilla" }, { "slug": "cartomancie-1788", "name": "The Cartomancie of 1788", "archive_no": "16", "approx_date": "c. 1788", "year_from": 1788, "century": 18, "kind": "oracle", "cards_total": "66", "cards_surviving": "66", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "An unknown French hand; drawn and colored around 1788", "origin": "France; the only copy is the maker's own, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France", "description": "A fortune-telling deck that exists in exactly one copy, drawn by hand in 1788: Louis XVI for a king card, Liberty with her cap, and the Revolution one year away.", "holding_source": "Gallica (BnF)", "source_url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10510967c", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/cartomancie-1788" }, { "slug": "etteilla-thot", "name": "The Livre de Thot Etteilla", "archive_no": "17", "approx_date": "1789", "year_from": 1789, "century": 18, "kind": "tarot", "cards_total": "78", "cards_surviving": "78", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "Jean-Baptiste Alliette, called Etteilla; etched plates after his designs", "origin": "Paris; this brush-colored copy comes from a private collection", "description": "The first tarot designed for fortune-telling, printed by Etteilla himself in 1789: the world remade in seventy-eight cards, beginning with Chaos.", "holding_source": "Benebell Wen collection", "source_url": "https://benebellwen.com/etteilla/downloads/", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/etteilla-thot" }, { "slug": "petit-oracle-des-dames", "name": "The Petit Oracle des Dames", "archive_no": "18", "approx_date": "c. 1797-1807", "year_from": 1797, "century": 18, "kind": "oracle", "cards_total": "42", "cards_surviving": "42", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "Unknown Paris engravers; this edition by Veuve Gueffier", "origin": "Paris; the copy at the Bibliothèque nationale de France keeps its instruction booklet", "description": "Forty-two double-ended cards from post-Revolution Paris: turn the card and the fortune turns with it, Love one way, Desire the other.", "holding_source": "Gallica (BnF)", "source_url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10520841s", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/petit-oracle-des-dames" }, { "slug": "game-of-hope", "name": "The Game of Hope", "archive_no": "19", "approx_date": "c. 1799", "year_from": 1799, "century": 18, "kind": "oracle", "cards_total": "36", "cards_surviving": "36", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "Johann Kaspar Hechtel, Nuremberg; etched and hand-colored", "origin": "Nuremberg; this pack in the British Museum, London, from Lady Charlotte Schreiber's collection", "description": "Thirty-six numbered cards from a Nuremberg parlor game of 1799 that, half a century later and under a famous fortune teller's borrowed name, became the Lenormand oracle.", "holding_source": "British Museum", "source_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Das_Spiel_der_Hofnung_(The_Game_of_Hope).png", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/game-of-hope" }, { "slug": "soprafino-tarot", "name": "The Tarocco Soprafino", "archive_no": "20", "approx_date": "c. 1835", "year_from": 1835, "century": 19, "kind": "tarot", "cards_total": "78", "cards_surviving": "", "cards_lost": "", "maker": "Carlo Della Rocca, engraver, for the publisher Ferdinando Gumppenberg", "origin": "Milan; the best copies now sit in the British Museum and private collections", "description": "Milan's answer to the Marseille woodcut: the whole tarot re-engraved in fine line and dressed for the opera, the most elegant deck of its century.", "holding_source": "", "source_url": "", "scans_available": "no", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/soprafino-tarot" }, { "slug": "sibylle-des-salons", "name": "The Sibylle des Salons", "archive_no": "21", "approx_date": "c. 1840-1889", "year_from": 1840, "century": 19, "kind": "oracle", "cards_total": "52", "cards_surviving": "52", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "Drawn by Mansion after designs attributed to Grandville; published by H. Pussey, Paris", "origin": "Paris; this stencil-colored copy is at the Bibliothèque nationale de France", "description": "The prettiest fortune pack of the Paris salons: fifty-two little genre scenes said to be Grandville's, from Cupid to winged Victory, with Death in a shroud at number twenty-one.", "holding_source": "Gallica (BnF)", "source_url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10510152p", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/sibylle-des-salons" }, { "slug": "grand-jeu-lenormand", "name": "The Grand Jeu de Mlle Lenormand", "archive_no": "22", "approx_date": "first issued 1845; this printing c. 1850-1880", "year_from": 1845, "century": 19, "kind": "oracle", "cards_total": "54", "cards_surviving": "54", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "Published in Paris under Mlle Lenormand's name, two years after her death", "origin": "Paris; at the Bibliothèque nationale de France", "description": "Five oracles printed on one card: a myth, a constellation, a playing card, a letter and a flower, sold under a dead fortune teller's name.", "holding_source": "Gallica (BnF)", "source_url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105295873", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/grand-jeu-lenormand" }, { "slug": "minchiate-fiorentine", "name": "The Minchiate Fiorentine", "archive_no": "23", "approx_date": "1860-1890", "year_from": 1860, "century": 19, "kind": "tarot", "cards_total": "97", "cards_surviving": "97", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "A. Baragioli, cardmaker in Florence; woodcut, colored through stencils", "origin": "Florence; now at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris", "description": "Tarot was not big enough for Florence, so the city added Prudence, the four elements and the whole zodiac and dealt ninety-seven cards instead.", "holding_source": "Wikimedia Commons", "source_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Minchiate_card_deck_-_Florence_-_1860-1890", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/minchiate-fiorentine" }, { "slug": "livre-du-destin", "name": "The Livre du Destin", "archive_no": "24", "approx_date": "c. 1865-1899", "year_from": 1865, "century": 19, "kind": "oracle", "cards_total": "32", "cards_surviving": "32", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "Published by H. Pussey, Paris", "origin": "Paris; the BnF copy keeps its instruction booklet, L'Art de tirer les cartes", "description": "The Book of Fate as thirty-two cards: lawyers, widows, merchants and lovers in Second-Empire dress, with the fortune printed in the picture.", "holding_source": "Gallica (BnF)", "source_url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10529590c", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/livre-du-destin" }, { "slug": "grand-etteilla", "name": "The Grand Etteilla", "archive_no": "25", "approx_date": "printed c. 1875-1899, to Etteilla's design of 1788", "year_from": 1875, "century": 19, "kind": "tarot", "cards_total": "78", "cards_surviving": "78", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "Designed by Etteilla (Jean-Baptiste Alliette); this printing by B. P. Grimaud, Paris", "origin": "Paris; this copy from the Paul Marteau collection, Bibliothèque nationale de France", "description": "Etteilla's fortune-telling tarot as the shops sold it for a century: his 1788 system in a stencil-colored Grimaud printing, a meaning stamped on each end of every card.", "holding_source": "Wikimedia Commons (scans by the BnF)", "source_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jeu_de_tarot_divinatoire_dit_%22Grand_Etteilla%22_ou_%22tarot_%C3%A9gyptien%22_-_jeu_de_cartes,_estampe_-_btv1b10543181f", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/grand-etteilla" }, { "slug": "dondorf-lenormand", "name": "The Dondorf Lenormand", "archive_no": "26", "approx_date": "c. 1880 to 1895", "year_from": 1880, "century": 19, "kind": "oracle", "cards_total": "36", "cards_surviving": "36", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "B. Dondorf, Frankfurt am Main (firm active 1833 to 1933); chromolithograph", "origin": "Frankfurt am Main, export edition marked Francfort; this pack in the British Museum, London, from Lady Charlotte Schreiber's collection", "description": "Thirty-six small pictures with a playing card tucked into the corner of each: the German fortune-telling pack that most modern Lenormand decks are still quietly copying.", "holding_source": "British Museum", "source_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Print,_playing-card_(BM_1896,0501.308).jpg", "scans_available": "yes", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/dondorf-lenormand" }, { "slug": "vera-sibilla", "name": "The Vera Sibilla", "archive_no": "27", "approx_date": "c. 1880", "year_from": 1880, "century": 19, "kind": "oracle", "cards_total": "52", "cards_surviving": "", "cards_lost": "", "maker": "Unknown Milanese cardmakers, after the French sibylles", "origin": "Milan; nineteenth-century packs survive in private collections", "description": "Italy's kitchen-table oracle: fifty-two blunt little scenes, Death and the Enemy dealt out beside the Great Lord and the Merry Company.", "holding_source": "", "source_url": "", "scans_available": "no", "url": "https://foolmade.art/archive/vera-sibilla" }, { "slug": "wirth-tarot", "name": "The Oswald Wirth Tarot", "archive_no": "28", "approx_date": "1889", "year_from": 1889, "century": 19, "kind": "tarot", "cards_total": "22", "cards_surviving": "22", "cards_lost": "0", "maker": "Oswald Wirth, drawn under the direction of Stanislas de Guaita", "origin": "Paris; 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