Excellent work, John. All very convincing to me. A few comments. Tarot John wrote Wow! Interesting that your copy also has the letters at the bottom of the cards! Thanks for posting the covers, too! I was curious what they looked like. The more I see of it, the more I'm convinced that the Las Vegas ...

Here are the front cover of the Las Vegas version, with the 1853 front cover on the right for comparison: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gTkZRLWmWo0/Xh22gQDQZGI/AAAAAAAAOr4/__VcGilCrt4wo8FKV8_DaTtHkm3JKQMkQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1838frontcover1853.jpg And here is the back cover of the Las Vegas, with the Leno...

Thanks for being so on it, Ross. Those things are quite a nuisance.

Phaeded wrote, in reply to my query about Jupiter and the Last Judgment card, I errantly copied the Mars passage twice in my schematic - the correct Jupiter passage is Par. XVII.91f, It is actually XVIII.91f. What is closest is Par. 104-110: But lo! of those Who call ‘Christ, Christ,’ there shall be...

Tarot John wrote, Here's another mystery... The Tarot-as-Tarocchi website here ( https://www.tarot-as-tarocchi.com/grand-etteilla-ii,-bloquel---castaux.html ) show cards that have been cut out from an 1838 Orsini book and pasted onto cardboard. If you look closely, some of them have small letters pr...

I was so excited about your information, John, that I forgot to welcome you to THF. So yes, welcome, I'm so glad you're here. Also, it's nice having a fellow Norhwesterner on board (I'm in the Portland area). Another thing I was excited about was your calling attention to the "Internet Archive" copy...

Great job. I've wondered about those figures, but never looked for them in Hargrave's book. As far as identifying the women, it might help if we knew which of the twelve were in which of the decks, because some might be variants of previous ones. Several of the Muses had musical instruments as their...

:Ross: I have been going through your translation looking for sentences that were unclear to me in English, so I could at least suggest that you look at them again, if you ever do another, more scholarly edition of the same work. I will start with Marcello's letter, already discussed briefly elsewhe...

Nice work, Alain, about the beautiful game of cards, all figures, 1451, to be painted by Jehannin Joulain in Paris. Is it being paid for by King Rene? If so, what was Ferry's role? Also, I would think that "personnages" would not include birds. Is that correct?

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