Huck: Well, your "Murad" argument would only work for 1441. Who knows? The marks could be either "mura" or "mart," or maybe other things. Sure, Murad works best with 1441, but he reigned from 1421-1451. It occurs to me that Borso might have become acquainted with the t...

hi, Mike Murad II, Ottoman Emperor from 1421 - 1451 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murad_II In the peace negotiations of end of 1441 the next crusade was discussed, as this belonged to the promises given to the Eastern church during the council. Battle of Varna 1444 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle...

Ferrara 1422, the first document with playing cards: http://trionfi.com/0/d/11/ 1422, adi XXIII de marco, Maistro Iacomo depictore de havere per factura de tredexe cartexelle da zugare che luy fe de novo a tute sue spexe, tra le qualle ge ne fo cinque figure, o per recuncare, zoe retinte la cuverta ...

I have a question for Huck. In your diagram, the Fool is 11. How did it get to be zero? Why the change? Hm .. ... to understand the problem, one first has to realize, that 11111111111111111111111, even when taken as a binary number and not in a system based on 10, is very high. In the usual countin...

Thanks for calling my attention to Ross's comments about the Michelino suits, Huck. I had missed that, if he said it recently (I only remember it from the end of the "Bologna" thread). It's not much of an argument, and I sure do disagree. I would add to what you say: the eagle is Jupiter'...

hi Mike, hi Ross, I still think the Michelino was the first tarot, and after that came a predecessor to the Cary-Yale, a Petrarchan Christianization of the Michelino, somewhat along Pen's lines. Perhaps the 1425 Trionfi festivities (mentioned in Huck's last post) suggested the modifications, as well...

Parravicino [edited to add: sorry the link doesn't work, I can never get trionfi.com links to work] doesn't mention it - he just sees trumps and suit cards, as most people do. It isn't so difficult to make links from Trionfi.com work. Most pages are made with with Frames, but each text content has ...

A Mongolian chess master beats the Nr. 1 of the modern chess in 2010. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90779/90867/6967387.html Well, this is a sort of practical evidence, that Mongalians likely had a really extended chess culture already very early. Definitely there is also a general Russian...

nice deck there! what is the name of the particular deck it is from? ...:-) ... as already stated, Leonhard Schäufelein ... http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks02/d00605/d00605.htm information to Schäufelein ... see above dr bartolo, may I ask you something personal? Your detailed knowledge about some G...

Thanks Huck. ... :-? ... Well I am not sure exist a conceptual or iconographic continuity between Michelino and other decks. Well, that's of course not sure ... We don't know, how much the details of the Michelino deck were known outside of the court of Milan, and - as Filippo Maria Visconti lived ...