On Aeclectic, Kwaw (SteveM here) steered me to Etteilla's Zodiaque Mystérieux of 1772 for more on Palingenio. On p. 8 Etteilla says: Je reviens à l'objet de ma Préface, pour rendre compte au Lecteur des raisons qui m'ont porté à nommer cet Ouvrage Zodiaque , Si j'ai préferé ce titre, ce n'est pas qu...

According to DDD, p. 79, there was the little booklet Lettre sur l'oracle du jour of 1772, under the signature of one 'Duchessee de ***", "which we may suspect to have been written at Etteilla's request. As I said in my last post, , this booklet mentions Hisler (although DDD do not mention...

Using your material in the Poilly thread, I constructed a list of descriptions for the other 9 cards of the Poilly (or 21, counting the zodiac). I posted it at http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=782&p=12733#p12733. I get 21 in one list, 40 in another (Merlin), 42 for the thir...

I had trouble, from Huck's presentation, in seeing the whole layout, from the 21 of one list to the 40 and 42 of the others, including what each added or subtracted. So here is the whole list. A. First are the 21 at Gallica, http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=IFN-8409718&I=8&M=chemind...

Ah, I see now, you click on the little arrow at the bottom left to get more pictures. Well, for my purposes what I needed were the descriptions, since the pictures themselves are quite different from those of the Petit Oracle. I never would have connected the two, except for the descriptions. There ...

These are just from the first 21 descriptions that Huck gave. They have nothing to do with Etteilla that I can see. I couldn't find Huck's descriptions of the other 9, before the zodiac. I don't understand ... what do you mean? Poilly deck? Here are 21 cards: http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre...

I thought some documentation might be in order for why Etteilla had nothing to do with the Petit Oracle, as Eric says and contrary to the BNF. There are too many differences between its system and Etteilla's. I think it is worth listing some of them. (1) The astrological assignments are often differ...

Nice, Lorredan. I especially like your picture of Isis, of course, since that is one of my themes. Then the book that the Popess carries would be the basic text of Canon Law, perhaps a collection of stories involving the supernatural, e.g. the Bible. For readers who might not have been following Bar...

Huck wrote Momus was not numbered in the Poilly-22-version (though 16 was missing in this deck, and the Museum placed it to 16 ... but 16 should have been the element Air). In the 42-version he had 29, the last "before 30", and 31-42 were the months (or the zodiac). That's somehow similar ...

Huck wrote, The position of Fool between 20 and 21 appeared only in 19th century ? Wasn't there something earlier? We discussed this recently, I remember, somewhere in the Etteilla threads. I don't remember, where. Etteilla in his writings put the Fool between the majors and the minors, i.e. between...