http://a-tarot.eu/p/2020/idi05.jpg "Mundus Ludens in Tarockorum Lusu", somehow a Jesuitic school theatre project in Innsbruck, February 1759. The play is in a negative manner about the life of Martin Luther. Possibly there is a context to the reported condition, that Martin Luther had been connecte...

Spielkarten aus dem Landesmuseum Kärnten (c. 2002)
Elfriede Krauland
https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Rudolfinum_2 ... 5-0278.pdf

... contains a deck fragment from the end of 18th century (Gorizia)

For the Rosenwald cards we have, that the figures 2-3-4-5 together with the 1 Fool-Pagat make good logical "5 Papi group" ... in contrast to the later Minchiate standard with 5 Love and 4-3-2 rulers and 1 Pagat, which looks like a later corruption of the basic idea. In the PMB of the first artist we...

Alciato in 1540 wrote a short poem, which included a list a Tarot trumps. It was in Latin. Parerga iuris: libri VII. posteriores, Andrea Alciati 1544 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QG1FAAAAcAAJ&hl=fr&source=gbs_navlinks_s (as far I got it, the text was already in the version of 1543, but was m...

Ross wrote (post #81) I can't say much about "Eight Emperors," except that it clearly means one of two things: a rule in which eight cards were called "emperors," whether or not they really depicted emperors, or eight special cards that we might naturally take to have been trumps. I tend to the form...

Königrufen is a Tarock variant and it has an English explanation ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Königrufen and a German ... The English laudatio: Königrufen or Königsrufen (German: "Call the King"[2]) is a four-player, trick-taking card game of the tarot family, played in Austria and Southern Tyr...

The numbered trumps of the Tarocchino Bolognese have this row ... in direct connection to the Minchiate order Trump Bologna / Name of the card .... relation to Minchiate (20) Angel (Angelo) .... (Minchiate not numbered trump 40) (19) World (Mondo) .... (... trump 39) (18) Sun (Sole) .... (... trump ...

A new (new to myself) old (19th century) Tarocco Siciliano in the WWPCM http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks07/d05237/d05237.htm http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks07/d05237/d05237j01.jpg Tuzzolino (18th century) http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks07/d05238/d05238.htm http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks07/d05238/d05...

In the description of Ottocento ... https://www.pagat.com/tarot/ottocen.html .... a Tarocchino deck (a Tarot deck with 62 cards, the cards 2-3-4-5 are skipped) is used for the game. So there is not only, that the trumps 2-3-4-5 are handled in a special way, but also the number cards 2-3-4-5. Ottocen...

Ross, card games are not manuscripts, and their rules don't work the way language does. This idea of yours seems to imply that we should expect card games to start out full of strange complicated rules, and then become simpler over time, as they spread to other places. I'm not exactly an expert on ...