I am extremely interested in early German decks (non-tarot ones) and even more so in German exports. Thank you for this data and everything you posted in the trionfi.com article. I am trying to locate pictures of all of those decks. But all the regular decks on the list do seem to be German. So it ...

The article of Franco had some interest, as it could give some argument for the 5x14-theory.
After some closer examination all (inclusive Franco) got doubts about the value of the article.

There is the point with the "Rosenwald Tarocchi", that the 4 Fante or Jacks look very much like the 4 Fante of Minchiate and the 4 Knights look also like Knights of Minchiate. From there the question exists, if "Rosenwald Tarocchi" is a stupid name, which should be replaced by Rosenwald Minchiate. h...

I gather we have no image of Leinfelden. We had gotten a copy of the Museum material for research, but had no allowance to publish it. It's very much damaged. Search the archive for "Leinfelden". Also search the archive for "Assisi". In Assisi a 48-card deck was found, which was a reduced Rosenwald...

Sandy wrote: The regular deck was 52 (although four different face cards are used in Italy, any given region uses only 3) This is true as far back as the evidence goes, as far as I know. This isn't true for the situation of 15th century. Compare http://trionfi.com/0/p/25/ Master PW made a 5x14 deck ...

Some theory assumes, that the Cary-Yale had 16 trumps, and 4x16 small arcana (6 courts + 10 numbers for each suit), together a 5x16-deck (that' demands a sort of minimal addition). The Cary-YaleTarocchi fragment has 11 trumps (between them theological virtues, not part of standard Tarot) and as cour...

Maybe this collection of Petrarca Trionfi is helpful, Sandy ...
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New book: Franco Pratesi: Playing-Card Production in Florence (2018), 151 pages, 20 Euro, ISBN 978-88-27824-79-5 ... some pictures to playing cards unknown to me are included, from the Crippa collection, Milan Franco writes in the introduction ... "A large part of the content of this book has first ...

http://formation.kevinmeunier.com/?page_id=2069 ... has pictures of the Blanck & Tschann deck http://formation.kevinmeunier.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Blanck-et-Tschann-102.jpg http://formation.kevinmeunier.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Blanck-et-Tschann-72.jpg http://formation.kevinmeunier.com...

There is some mention of the engraver Francois Isnard in previous topic here: http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=821 Yes ... Thierry Depaulis wrote in 2010 an article "When (and how) Tarot reached Germany" (IPSC 39/2, starting p. 64). The article is excellent, it helps here to devel...