Magician - Tarot card
1, Magician
Other names:
Juggler, El Bagatella, Il Bagatino, Baga, Basteleur, Bateleur, Beteleux, Il Bagatello, Pagat, Pagad, Petit
Oldest appearances:
Pierpont-Morgan-Bergamo
Rosenthal-Visconti-Sforza (as falconer ?)
Goldschmidt (as falconer ?)
d'Este cards
Rosenwald
group printed sheets
Cary-Sheet
Catelin Geofroy
Parisian Tarot cards
Lombardy I (?)
The anonymous monk, author of
Sermones de Ludo
, calls this triumph
El Bagatella
(the Trifle), defining it with the writing “est omnium inferior” (it is the most inferior among all), to mean its lowest importance in the game, a judgement that coincided with the represented personage, a “bagattegliere”, considered of very small state, a vile person (see the below Addenda).
Bagatella (trifle) is an ancient Italian word, which is still used nowadays, it means “a thing of little importance”.
It also has two meanings: conjuring trick - sleight of hand and deceit - and fraud. This word was used in these senses by many Italian authors, such as Aretino, Ariosto, and Vasari.
Aretino writes in his
Astolfeida
“a delightful work to read, containing life and facts about all the French paladins, and about the birth of the Maganza House, about who Gano was and about the noble condition of his genealogy, wonderful fact of love, and great battles of Orlando and Rinaldo”: “Vivian vivachiava a scrocco in corte, / con tutti alzando il fianco a corpo sciolto; / Guicciardo, Alardo mai uscir le porte / di Montalban, che no li fussi tolto; mastro di spirti e bagatelle a sorte fu Malagigi, e cangiò forma e volto,/ come fean mastro Iaco e mastro Muccio / in Roma trarre ' ognun fino al cappuccio” (Vivian lived scrounging off the court guzzling with everybody without measure; as Guicciardino and Alardo left the ancestral castle of Montalbano it was immediately conquered by enemies; Malagigi was a magician and conjurer and changed features and face like Iaco and Muccio in Rome who through deception stripped anyone from head to feet). (First Canto, 24).
La Cassaria
was first written by Ariosto in prose, then in verses between 1528 and 1529. Its title comes from a box which is at the centre of the plot. The action develops in the Greek town of Metellino, and is nourished by the gags of two cunning servants, Volpino and Fulcio. These are the verses spoken by Volpino concerning this word: “Anzi l’ora è senza dubbio / Più presta che ’l bisogno e il desiderio / Nostro non era: anzi non potea giungere / Più a tempo. Venga, venga pur, che acconciomi / Son con la tasca, et un giuoco apparecchioli / Di bagatelle, il più bello e mirabile / Che si vedesse mai” (It is the right time with no doubt / Earlier than need and desire / It was not ours: rather it could not come / Later. Come, come, I’m ready / I’ve got a pocket, and a ready game / Of trifles, the most beautiful and admirable / that were ever seen). (Act IV – Scene II)
Vasari, referring to the painter Giovannantonio known as “Il Soddoma da Verzelli”: “He loved jokes and what he cared about most was to dress in a pompous way, wearing brocade jackets, golden cloaks, rich bonnets, necklaces and other similar trifles, things good for buffoons and charlatans” (Giorgio Vasari,
Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects
, 1550).
In Milanese dialect the word bàgát means chatterbox and the expression scart bàgát means to make a long speech, as those who undertake the prestigious medieval (and also those of today) to enchant the audience.
The figure of the Magician, an illusionist or clever talker, is represented in the Visconti Sforza Tarots as a richly dressed character, sitting near a table, on which there are many objects, in his hand he is holding a wand, a typical instrument for this profession (
figure 1
).
I don’t think that statements about this figure, and about the one of Este Tarots (
figure 2
), that refer to a table for dinner, are exact, because of the objects on the table, because of what the Magician is holding in his hands in Este Tarots, and also because the word Bagattella means thing of little importance, and refers to those engaged in such an activity.
I would say that the food, glass and knife on the table of the Visconti Sforza Tarots deck are the objects on which the illusionist will act, or will use to surprise. It would not be easy to understand why there is a wand in the illusionist hand who, certainly would not be sitting to eat with such a cumbersome thing, unless it was to be use for something else.
People in the Middle-Ages seemed to have an ambivalent attitude towards jugglers (the term conjurer is modern). Their shows were generally well accepted, but their methods were often condemned by people of the Church and lawyers who decided to forbid them from doing their shows in some towns. In 1250, Luigi XI for example, forbade the entrance of acrobats and conjurers into different French cities. It was a very confused period, full of superstitions and fears of the occult, of witches and of demons and a man able to cut and restore a cloth handkerchief could easily be accused of being in league with the devil.
The amazement that, for example, the conjuring trick, the most known and practiced in Europe, could arouse, can be deduced by the picture of amazement painted on the face of a bystander (
figure 3
) in Bosch’s work which today is called “The conjurer” (
figure 4
).
There is a juggler with a typical minstrel’s beret in the card in the Rosenwald deck (
figure 5
). I think it is possible to find a connection between the professional values of the ability of the juggler and those of the Artixan, in the third card of the Mantegna Tarots (
figure 6
), identified by Hind as a jeweller, without having to resort to implications of a philosophical nature.
Finally, we have to remember that the activity of the jugglers was considered amongst those protected by the Moon, as we find in a miniature of the
Codex De Sphaera
(
figura 7
-
The Children of the Moon
, cod. east, lat. 209, XV century) present in the Estense Library in Modena and in an incision of the series of the Planets of the
Mittelalterliches Hausbuch
(The Book of the House) from the same century (
figure 8
) -
The Children of the Moon
).
APPENDIX
Even if it doesn't expressly concern this Triumph from the iconographic point of view, I think it could be interesting to know the following writings that I report from the work
Il Serraglio de gli stupori del mondo
(The Managerie of the amazaments of the world) by Thomaso Garzoni da Bagnacavallo, a 1585 work and this for three motives: the first one is to understand the attitude that Renaissance men assumed before games and the conjurers; the second because appears the word bagatteglieri in reference to those people who developed such activity and the third one for two examples that the author refers about the Renaissance tricks effected with cards.
The complete title of the work is “The menagerie of the amazements of the world, by Tomaso Garzoni from Bagnacavallo. Divided in the ten orders, according to the various, & admirable objects. That is of monsters, prodigies, tricks, destinies, oracles, sibyls, dreams, astrological curiosity, miracles in general, and wonders in particular, narrated by the most famous writers, and described by the most historians and poets, which sometime happen, considering their probability, or improbability, according to nature. A not less erudite work, and curious, so it is for theologians... as for philosophers... enriched of various notes by the Bartolomeo Garzoni his brother... With three plentiful plates”.
The passages reported below belong to the edition printed in Venice by “Ambrosio, et Bartolomeo Dei, brothers. At the St. Mark library, 1613”
Extract WWPCM, special Tarot motifs with related deck
Visconti Tarocchi
Deck
* I Tarocchi dei Visconti Sforza - Italy, Dal Negro (reprint of original from after 1450)
Deck
* I Tarocchi dei Visconti - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (remake of 1995)
Deck
* Italy Tarot - Ukraine, unknown (2003) (no small arcana, additional great arcana)
Incomplete Visconti Tarocchi
Deck
* Pierpont Morgan, Visconti Sforza - Switzerland, AGM (1975, reprint of ca. 1450)
Tarot de Marseille
Deck
* VSS, Germany (2001, reprint of 1930/1748)
Deck
* Grimaud, Tarot of Marseilles - France (1963, reprint of 1761 of Nicolas Convert)
Deck
* Fournier, Tarot of Marseilles - Spain (1984, reprint of 18th century)
Deck
* Tarot de Marseille, reprint AGMüller, Switzerland (1870)
Deck
* Fournier, Le Tarot de Marseille - France (1992)
Incomplete versions of Tarot de Marseille
Deck
* 1743, by Jean Payen, Tarot de Marseille / 1760 complete version of Nicolaus Conver, reprint of 1860
Deck
* G.Drago, Tarot of Marseilles - Italy (ca. 1790)
Deck
* Gorizia, Tarot of Marseilles (18th c.)
Deck
* Berti, Tarot of Marseilles (18th c.)
Deck
* Tarot of Marseilles - Italy, unknown (ca. 1830)
Deck
* Gassmann, Tarot of Marseilles - Switzerland (1840 - 1860)
Tarot Besancon
Deck
* 1920, probably older woodblocks from J.Jerger, "Renault", Tarot de Besancon
Incomplete versions of Tarot Besancon
Deck
* 1748, reprint from ca. 1889 by "Grimaud" France, called "Ancient Tarot de Marseille" edition by Arnoult
Deck
* Besancon Tarot, ca 1760, Goebl (Bavaria)
Tarocco Piemontese
Deck
* Fabbrica di Vergnano, Tarocco Piedmontese, Italy ca. 1850
Deck
* 1884, A. Viassione (Torino, Italy) Tarocco Piemontese
Deck
* Dal Negro (Italy), Tarocchi Piemontese
Tarot Belgique
Deck
* Tarot Flamand - Swiss, AGM (reprint from 1780, Vandenboerre deck)
Deck
* 1831/1974, reproduction AGMüller (Suisse), Tarot
Deck
* ca. 1870 "J.Gaudais" (Paris, France), deck "Tarot", (!!!) with Juno + Jupiter - pair
Egypt Tarot and variations
Deck
* AGMuller, Switzerland) for USGS, USA, "Egipcios Kier Tarot"
Deck
* Ibis Tarot (Egypt Tarot) - Russia, by Josef Machynka (modern)
Deck
* Union Chernobil, "Egypt Tarot", Russia 2006
Rider-Waite-Smith and variations
Deck
* Novosibirsk, Tarot of A.Waite - Russsia (1909/2001)
Deck
* Universal Waite Tarot, AGMüller, Switzerland
Deck
* The Golden Rider Tarot, AGMüller, Switzerland
Deck
* De tarot in de Herstelde Orde - Holland, Servire (1995)(changed numbers)
Deck
* since 2002, "Carta Mundi" (Belgium), publisher "Lo Scarabeo" (Italy), deck "Universal Tarot"
Deck
* Tarot of the New Vision - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (2003)
Older decks with traditional number-row:
Deck
* I Tarocchini - Italy, Dal Negro (reprint of 1665 Mitelli-deck)
Deck
* Classical Tarot - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (2000, engravings from 1835)
Deck
* Papus Tarot - Swiss, AGM (1989, original from 1889, small arcana from 1981)
Deck
* Tarot of the Master (2002), remake of a deck of 1893, Lo Scarabeo
Deck
* Cartomanzia Italiana, Solleone, Italy (19th/1983)
Deck
* 1910 - 1912, Guglielmo Murari, deck "I Tarocchi"
Deck
* 1922, Fratelli Armanino (Rome), Tarocchi
Deck
* Crowley Tarot, AGMüller, Switzerland (1938-1944 / 1978)
Deck
* Fournier, Spanish Tarot - Spain(1992)
Incomplete older decks with traditional number row
Deck
* Tarot de Paris, 17th century, unknown reprint
Deck
* Gumppenberg, Historical Tarock, Italy (1812)
Deck
* ca. 1870, "Grimaud" (France) deck "Tarot"
Deck
* 1885, Edoardo Dotti, Milan, Dellarocca Tarot
Deck
* Venezian Tarock - Italy, Modiano (1964)
New Periode decks:
Deck
* Aquarian Tarot - Swiss, AGM (1970)
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* Morgan-Greer Tarot - Swiss, AGM (1999 ?, first published 1979)
Deck
* Hermetic Tarot - Swiss, AGM (1980)
Deck
* I Tarocchi di Enzo Viviani, 1980/81, limited edition (no small arcana)
Deck
* Hanson-Roberts Tarot - Swiss, AGM (1984)
Deck
* Tarot Cat People - USA, USGS (since 1985)
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* Deva Tarot - Austria, Piatnik (1986)
Deck
* Eclectic Tarot - Austria, Piatnik (1986)
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* Barbara Walker Tarot, 1986
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* Arcus Arcanum Tarot - Switzerland, AGMüller (1986)
Deck
* Capital - I Tarocchi del Manager, artist Giorgio Ghidoli, 1986
Deck
* Mythic Tarot, 1986 (1997 Chinese edition)
Deck
* Mithological Tarot, KSP+, Russia (1986/1999)
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* Herbal Tarot - Swiss, AGM (1988)
Deck
* 1988/1998 "Llewellyn Publications" (USA), deck "Gypsy Fortune Telling Tarot"
Deck
* Gypsy Tarot, Russia 2005, reprint "Gypsy Fortune Telling Tarot" (1988/98)
Deck
* Ansata Tarot - Switzerland, AGMuller (ca. 1988 ?) (no small Arcana)
Deck
* Tarot of the Ages - Swiss, AGM (1988)
Deck
* Art Nouveaux Tarot, Carta Mundi, Belgium (1989)
Deck
* Enchanted Tarot - USA, St.M.Press (1990)
Deck
* Haindl Tarot - Swiss, AGM (1990)
Deck
* Tarot of the Origins, Lo Scarabeo, Italy (1991/2000)
Deck
* Tarot of the Imagination, Lo Scarabeo, Italy (1991, 2000)(small Arcana incomplete)
Deck
Lo Scarabeo, Tarocchi dei Celti, Italy 1991
Deck
* Tarot of the Gold Dawn, Fair-Press, Russia (1991, 2001)
Deck
* Tarot, Unisam, Russia (1992) (no small arcana)
Deck
* Russian Tarot of St. Petersburg - Swiss, AGM (1992)
Deck
* Egorov Tarot - Austria, Piatnik (1992)
Deck
* Tarot of lovers, KSP+, Russia (1992/2000)
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* Tarot-93 - Russia, Mozaisk (1993)
Deck
* Medieval Scapini Tarot - Swiss, AGM (1994)
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* Tarot of Ceremonial Magick - USA, USGS (since 1994)
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* Piatnik, Tarot, Austria (1995)
Deck
* I Tarocchi Dell'Alba Dorata (Tarots of the Golden Dawn) - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (1995)
Deck
* Tarot of the Gnomes - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (1995)
Deck
* Illuminating Ancient Tarots - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (1995, based on Sola Busca from 1491)
Deck
* Hudes Tarot, 1995, USA
Deck
* 1995, "Carta Mundi" (Belgium) for "USGS" (USA), deck "Unicorn Tarot", Artist Liz Hilton
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* 1996, "AGMuller" (Switzerland), for "USGS" (USA), deck No.12.468 "Tarot of Gemstones and Crystals"
Deck
* Rock Art Tarot, 1996
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* Old English Tarot - Swiss, AGM (1996)
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* Kalevala Tarot - Swiss, AGM (1996)
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* Kazanlar Tarot, AGMüller, Switzerland (1996)
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* Cosmic Tarot, AGMüller, Switzerland (1997)
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* RenaissanceTarot - Swiss, AGM (1997)
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* Diamond Tarot - Switzerland, AGMuller (1997)
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* "USGS" (USA), printed in China, deck "The Zerner&Farber Tarot", 1997
Deck
* "Lo Scarabeo" (Italy), deck "The Fairy Tarots", 1998, publisher "Fair-press" (Russia), designed by Antonio Lupatelli
Deck
* Tarot: Oracle of the Tsar Solomon - Lithuania, Calendar (1998) (additional great arcana)
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* Tarot of the Sephiroth Swiss, AGM (1998)
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* The Renaissance Tarot - USA, Fireside (1998)
Deck
* Art Nouveau Tarot - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (1998)
Deck
* The Goddess Tarot - Swiss, AGM (1998)
Deck
* Tavaglione Tarot (Stairs of Gold Tarot) - Russia (1998 ?)
Deck
* The Secret Tarots, Lo Scarabeo, Italy (1998)
Deck
* Shapeshifter / Tarot of Transformations, Nirwana, Russia (1998/2001)
Deck
* Baphomet, Tarot of the Underworld, Urania, Switzerland (1999) (no small arcana)
Deck
* Fantastical Tarot - Swiss, AGM (1999)
Deck
* The Celtic Dragon Tarot - USA, Llewellyn (1999)
Deck
* Nefertari's Tarots - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (1999)
Deck
* Workman Publishing, "Baseball Tarot", USA 1999
Deck
* Transcendential Tarot "Key of Hermes", Russia, A.Zaraev (1999)
Deck
* Tarot of Spiritual Evolution "Key of Hermes" Russia, A.Zaraev (1999)
Deck
* One World Tarot, 1999
Deck
* Votre Tarot, France 2000
Deck
* Celtic Tarot - Belgium, Carta Mundi (2000)
Deck
* Magic Tarot - Russia, KSP+ (2000)
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* Vedic Tarot - Russia, KSP+ (2000)
Deck
* The Cosmic Tribe Tarot - Russia, KSP+
Deck
* Ppus Tarot - Ukraine, Siromjatnikoff (2000)
Deck
* Duerer Tarot - TarotClub(2000) (no small arcana)
Deck
* Tarot of Casanova - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (2000)
Deck
* The Crystal Tarot - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (2000)
Deck
* The Vampire Tarot - USA, USGS (since 2000)
Deck
* Animal Tarot - USA, Paula Gibby (ca. 2000)
Deck
* The Blue Rose Tarot - USA, Paula Gibby (ca. 2000)
Deck
* Union Chernobil, Cards of Tarot - Russia (2001)
Deck
* Mirror of fate - Russia, unknown (2001)
Deck
* Gregori Tarot, Russia, unknown (2001)
Deck
* Secret Tarot - Belgium, Carta Mundi (2001)
Deck
* Tarot of Third Millenium (Röhrig Tarot) - Russia, Tarot Academy (2001)
Deck
* 2000, "Carta Mundi" (Belgium), for "USGS" (USA), deck "Whimsical Tarot", Artist Mary Hanson-Roberts
Deck
* Tarot of the Sphinx, 2001, Lo Scarabeo
Deck
* Decameron Tarot - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (2002)
Deck
* Etruscan Tarot - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (2002)
Deck
* Zinatne, "Latvian Tarot", Latvia 2002
Deck
* Tarot of Nostradamus's dreams - Russia, Starcklight (2002)
Deck
* Gold Tarot of doctor Paracelsus - Russia, KSP+ (2002)
Deck
* Tarot of ancient wisdom (Old Path) - Russia (2002)
Deck
* Universal Tarot (Connolly Tarot)- Russia, unknown (2002)
Deck
* Tarot of Fortune - Russia, CPP (2002)
Deck
* Round tarot of Woman Authority (Mother Peace 2) - Russia, North Scoop (2002)
Deck
* Tarot Major Arcana - Russia (2002) (no small arcana)
Deck
* Olympus Tarot, Lo Scarabeo, Italy (2002)
Deck
* The Golden Tarot of the Tsar, Lo Scarabeo, Italy (2002)
Deck
* Tarot of the Journey to the Orient (Marco Polo), 2002, Lo Scarabeo
Deck
* Celtic Tarot, Russia 2003
Deck
* Rocambol Tarot, Russia 2003
Deck
* New Century Tarot, 2003, USA
Deck
* Leonardo da Vinci Tarot, 2003 (Lo Scarabeo)
Deck
* Cabbalistic Tarot G.O.M. - Switzerland, Aenigma (2003)
Deck
* Manara Tarot - Russia, Avvalon (2003)
Deck
* Osho Zen Tarot - Russia, unknown (2003)
Deck
* Casanova Tarot - Ukraine, unknown (2003) (no small arcana, additional great arcana)
Deck
* Russian Love Tarot - Ukraine, unknown (2003) (no small arcana, additional great arcana)
Deck
* India Tarot - Ukraine, unknown (2003) (no small arcana, additional great arcana)
Deck
* Tarot of Prague - Czech, A.Ukolov (ca. 2003)
Deck
* Love Tarot 2 - Ukraine, unknown, (2003) (no small arcana, additional great arcana)
Deck
* Tarot of Mermaids - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (2003)
Deck
* The Matrix reloaded - Ukraine, unknown, (2003)
Deck
* Magic Tarot, unknown (2003) (no small arcana, additional great arcana)
Deck
* 2003, unknown (Ukraine), Tarot
Deck
* 2004, unknown (Russia), Tarot
Deck
* 2004, "Lo Scarabeo" (Italy), deck "Dragons Tarot", designed by Manfredi Toraldo & Severino Baraldi
Deck
* 2004, "Lo Scarabeo" (Italy), deck "Tarot of Druids", designed by Bepi Vigna, Severino Baraldi, Antonio Lupatelli
Deck
* 2004, "Lo Scarabeo" (Italy), deck "Fey Tarot", Artist Mara Aghem
Deck
* Arkaim, Apollo Tarot, Russia 2004
Deck
* Arkaim, Shakespeare Tarot, Russia 2004
Deck
* Arkaim, Tales Tarot, by V. Trosinenko, Russia 2004
Deck
* Arkaim, Bible Tarot by M. Parhetova, Russia 2004
Deck
* Labyrinth Tarot, Spain 2005, by Luis Royo
Deck
* 'Book World', Da Vinci Tarot, Russia 2006, reprint of "The Da Vinci Enigma Tarot", 2005
Deck
* 2005 "Avvallon " (Russia) deck "Tarot of the 78 doors", reprint of "Lo Scarabeo" (Italy) edition designed by Pietro Alligo & Antonella Platano
Deck
* Tarot Love, 2005, Russia
Deck
* Union Chernobil, Silver Age Tarot, Russia 2006
Deck
* Roberto Meiattini, Tarocco erotico dei giardini di priapo, designed by Amerigo Folchi
Deck
* The Tarot of Durer - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (modern)
Deck
* Russian Tarot - Russia, unknown (Victor Bakhtin ?)(modern)
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* Tarot of Magic Raven - Russia, unknown (modern)
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* Palladini Tarot - unknown (modern)
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* Mysterious Tarot of Egypt - Russia, Novosibirsk (modern)
Deck
* Holy Tarot of Tot, Russia, Sofia (modern)
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* CPP, Tarot - Russia (modern)
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* Tarot of Aquarius's era - Russia, CPP (modern)
Deck
* The New Orleans VooDoo Tarot - USA, Destiny Books (modern)
Deck
* I Tarocchi - Italy, unknown (production time unknown) (no small arcana)
Deck
* Tarot Floral (modern), Lo Scarabeo
Animal Tarot, complete
Deck
* ca. 1790 Claude Rochais Animal Tarock
Deck
* Daveluy, Animal Tarot - Belgium (19th/20th c. ?)
Deck
* Animal Tarot, Geuens Seaux, Belgium
Deck
* Adler Cego Tarot - Germany, ASS (1976), since 1931 (?)
Animal Tarot, incomplete
Deck
* A. Göbl, Bavarian Animal Tarot - Germany (1750)
Deck
* ca. 1780, Guilleaume Mann, Colmar (Germany), Bavarian Animal Tarot
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* 1790, J. M. Backofen, Bavarian Animal Tarot
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* 1795, J. de Porre (Belgium), Animal Tarot
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* J.G.Backofen, Animal Tarock, Germany (1800)
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* ca. 1800, unknown, (Luebeck, Germany), Baltic Tarot
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* Industrie-Comptoir, Animal Tarot - Germany (1810)
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* ca. 1815, Jacob Wokaun (Czechia), Upper Austrian animal Tarot
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* Sewera, Animal Tarock - Czechia (1849)
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* Uffenheimer - Animal Tarock (1837)
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* C.T.Sutor, Animal Tarock (19th c. ?)
Deck
* CPP, Tarock with Animals - Russia (1920)
Military Tarot, complete
Deck
* Piatnik, Soldaten Tarock - Austria (1918)
Military Tarot, incomplete
Deck
* ca. 1785, Martin Boehme (?), Dresden Germany, Military Tarot
Deck
* F.Eurich, Tarock - Austria (1816)
Deck
* Glanz, Franz Josef, Military Tarock - Austria (1854)
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* Glanz, Franz Josef, Military Tarock - Austria (1858)
Deck
* Glanz, Franz Josef Military Tarock - Austria (1865 or 63)
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* Glanz, Franz Josef, Military Tarock - Austria (1885)
Tarock with buildings, complete
Deck
* Franz Xaver Milchram, Grazer Tarock, Austria 1825, reprinted by Piatnik 1995
Deck
* Pittner, Graz Tarock - Austria (1870)
Deck
* Piatnik, Tarot - Austria (1974, reprint of 19th)
Deck
* S.Salomon&Co, Holmblads Spillekort Forretning - Denmark (ca. 1910)
Deck
* Frommann&Morian, Ansichtentarock, Germany 1929
Incomplete Tarock with buildings
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* "J.G.Uffenheimer" Tarock (?), Germany c.1830
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* "J.G.Uffenheimer" Tarock, Austria (?) c.1830
Other decks (mainly Tarock for playing) - usually trumps and courts
Deck
* Mythology Tarock, 1820, Hungary
Deck
* Industrie-Comptoir, Tarock, Germany 1839
Deck
* Piatnik, Industrie und Gluck Tarock - Austria (since 1843)
Deck
* "Il Meneghello", deck "Tarocco Maria Stuarda", Italy 2004, reprint of c.1845 edition of "Fabrica Dotti" (Milan)
Deck
* Glanz, Constitution Tarock - Austria (1848)
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* Piatnik, Habsburger Tarock, Austria 1850, reprinted 1993
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* Dondorf, Microscopic Tarock - Germany (1858-1933)
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* Piatnik, Can-Can Tarock, Austria, since c.1860
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* C.L.Wuest, Tarot - Germany (since 1890)
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* Catel, Jeu de Tarot - France (19th/20th ?)
Deck
* Grimaud standard deck - France (groups of persons)(19th/20th ?)
Deck
* Vannak, Szerencse Fel Tarock - Hungary (1901)
Deck
* Joseph Glanz, Tarock No.1 - Austria (1906)
Deck
* Modiano, Alan-Tarock - Italy (since 1910)
Deck
* Alan Tarot - Italy, Modiano (since 1981, reprint of 1910)
Deck
* Erste Slowenische Spielkartenfabrik, Tarock (1912)
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* Franz Adametz, Industrie und Gluck Tarock, Austria since 1930
Deck
* Tarot des Regions de France - France, Grimaud (1986)
Deck
* Fournier, Nuevo Juego del Tarot - Spain (1977)
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* 1991, Kolin (Czechia), Taroky
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* Jeu de Tarot, France, Heron (20th c. ?)
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* Tarocco, Modiano, Italy
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* French Tarock, ASS
Incomplete other decks (mainly Tarock for playing)
Deck
* Sachsentarock, ca. 1778, Breitkopf - Leipziger Kartenfabrik
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* A.Goebl Tarock, Germany c.1780
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* 1800 J.D. Backofen, Tarock ?
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* 18th P.F. Ulrich, Tarock
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* J.C.DuPort, Tarock - Poland (18th c.)
Deck
* C.F.Pfeiffer, Tarock - Germany (18th/19th c. ?)
Deck
* Napoleon Tarock - France, unknown (1808)
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* Turkey - Germany. unknown (1810)
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* Estel, Chinese Tarock - Austria (1820)
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* Joseph Estel, Tarot - Austria (1823)
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* Mythology Tarock, 1825, Frankfurt
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* Bechstein - Tarock, Germany (1835)
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* Emil Hirschfeld, Tarot - Austria (1844)
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* "?" Austria "Chinese Tarock", c.1850
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* Kobitsch, Tarock - Germany (1855)
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* Piatnik, Hunter Tarock, Austria (1856)
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* Dondorf, Cego Tarot -Germany (since 1858)
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* C.Titze&Schinkay, Tarot (since 1859)
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* Joseph Glanz, Tarot - Austria (1865)
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* F.Pittner, Tarock - Austria (1865)
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* Piatnik, Fools Tarock, Austria (1865 or 55)
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* ca. 1890 "Grimaud" (France), deck "Classical Deities Tarot",
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* LeQuart, Classical Deities Tarock - France (1890)
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* Ceska Grafika, Tarock - Czechia (ca. 1890)
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* ca. 1890, "Willeb" (Paris, France), deck "Tarot"
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* Tarock - Austria, unknown (19th c. ?)
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* Dondorf, Tarot - Germany (19th c.)
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* H.F.Mueller, Tarot - Austria (19th/20th c.)
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* Grimaud, Tarot Francais des Fleurs - France (1902)
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* ASS, Proverbs Tarock - Germany (1920)
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* August Denk, Tarock - Austria (1925)
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* VSS, Tarock, Germany (1925)
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* Bielefelder Cego - Germany (1954)
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* Tarot Comedians Francaise, Heron, Dusserre, France
Tarocco Siciliano, changed row and motifs, 64 cards
- a special treasure, as till now there is not too much to the Tarocco Siciliano in the web. There is an article connected to the decks.
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* 19th century "Lorenzo di Lorenzo" (Italy), deck "Tarocco Siciliano"
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* 19th century "La Fortuna" (Italy) deck "Tarocco Siciliano"
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* since 1966, "Modiano" (Italy), deck "Tarocco Siciliano"
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* 18th century "Tuzzolino" (Italy), deck "Tarocco Siciliano"
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* 1930 - 1975 "Concetta Campione" (Catania, Italy) deck "Tarocco Siciliano"
Minchiate, changed row and motifs, 97 cards
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* Il Meneghello, "Minchiate Fiorentine", Italy 1986, reprint of design c. 1820 and first print after 1862
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* Al Leone, "Minchiate Fiorentine", (Bologna, Italy) c.1790, reprint by Edizioni del Prado/Ediciones del Prado, Madrid, Spain, 2004
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* "Carte di Etruria" (Italy), c.1725, reprint by "LoScarabeo" (Italy) as "Antiche Minchiate Etruria", 1996
Incomplete Minchiate
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* unknown, Firenze, Italy, "Florence Minchiate", c.1700 (?)
Etteilla Tarot, altered row
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* Esoteric Ancient Tarot - Italy, Lo Scarabeo (1997, based on Etteilla deck from 1870)
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* Grimaud, "Grand Etteilla", France, edition of 1910
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* "Rei Mundy" (Belgium) for Russia deck "Grand Etteilla", 2006 designed by V.Zaichenko
Incomplete Etteilla deck
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* end of 18th century, "Bezu" ? (France), "Grand Etteilla"
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* Egyptian Tarot, France - unknown(1845)
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* Delarue, Le Grand Jeu de l'Oracle des Dames, France 1870, together with a complete reprint of 2003 by Lo Scarabeo, "The Book of Toth"
Further Articles:
Magician - Ross Gregory Caldwell
Bagatto - Bob O'Neill
Magician - Tom Tadfor Little
Magician (Meaning) - Aeclectic.net (Thirteen)