Here is Bertoni, 1905 (https://www.yumpu.com/it/document/view/15308530/poesie-leggende-costumanze-del-medio-evo-liber-liber), p. 269: Un altro gioco, quello dei tarocchi, die la chiave de quei note cinque capitoli del Boairdo che potevano parere singulare o stranamente costrutti prima delle fortunat...

Nathaniel: from one use only of the of the term "tarocchi appropriati," that of the poem cited by Bertoni, it is difficult to draw a conclusion about a whole genre. Bertoni himself describes it as an example of "tarocchi versificati". But thanks for drawing our attention to Dummett. I had quoted him...

In re-reading this thread, I realize that an important issue was left dangling. What counts as a "tarocchi appropriati"? We know that the attribution of card subjects to ladies of a court, or the canons of Bologna, or cardinals in conclave, is a "tarocchi appropriati". We know that a description of ...

Alain wrote: Le Sepher Yetsirah ou LIvre de la formation est le livre, à mon sens, le plus hermétique de la Qabbale prophétique. Attribué à Abraham, il aurait été rédugé vers le VIIe siecle post JC. La Qabbale médiévale et provencale d'Aboulagia en fera son texte phare; L'ordre de création des Sephi...

Continued from previous post. Love was next, everywhere except Ferrara. Its identical placement in France needs no further explanation, although the association of Love with the Kabbalists' Tifareth, "beauty", doesn't hurt: as Plato had argued in the Symposium that what is loved is beauty, whether p...

In In this post and the next I want to try another approach to the arithmological tarot. We know that numerology was popular in the 15th century, as part of the revival in Greek learning and also as a continuation of the Christianization of Greco-Roman and Jewish numerology in late antiquity (for wh...

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It would certainly seem that the Schreiber interpretation of the passage in Müller is the most reasonable. However it is not certain. Richter observes, "The surrounding context shows that Müller often combines details from various sources spanning a century: On a single page he mentions, in order of...

Thanks for the additions, Ross. Those were harder, at least for me. I looked at the other Cordovero-related manuscripts on the Vatican page you linked to, Ross. Two of them are of interest for "trees." Vat.Eb.518 is a ms. of the Or Ne'erav , the short version of the Pardes Rimonim that he wrote late...

I think that after Yod what we see is two-digit Hebrew numerals, Yod being equivalent to 10. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_numerals. However where we would expect to see Yod + Aleph, this diagram has Yod + something else. So it's difficult to be sure of the order. https://1.bp.blogspot.co...