Very interesting, thanks for the development. %%- :) - may be related the falconer with the German hunting decks (same for the cards Guildhal)? what do you think? Spring 1461: A Milanese painter got the order to learn from Rogier van Weyden in Brussels. Roger agreed. But the painter was invited to ...

well I can explain the placing of the One of trump, for In the german game of tarock, the one of trump ("pagat") has a special role, and related to the "le battleur" of tarot, which is depicted as a magician, or trivial performer and so, the "pagat" is naturally a jest...

From the appearence of this deck, It looks like one of the countless decks published during the 18th-19thc. in Germany , where the norlma subjects of the trumps (love, death, world...) were replaced with scenes of countries, or pictures of animals- the variant with animals on them is still used in ...

Yes, there is a lot of heraldic. And this other heraldic might be the heraldic from "somebody else". But the crowned dolphin is "only heraldic" ... nothing else. And there is a parallel to the twice appearing Visconti viper in the Sforza decks ... also "only heraldic". ...

The Goldschmidt cards are in the Spielkartenmuseum Stuttgart-Leinfelden. Hoffmann reported 1972, that a paper research was done in the 1950's. The result was a c. mid 15th century. Cesare Borgia didn't live then. Possibly the Shephard suggestion depended on the provenance, which is given with Sevill...

mmfilesi wrote:Hi friend, thanks for this post.

Do you know who are the two females trained the Moon's chariot? (101v)

http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg832/0211

No indication inside the text. Maybe the devil with two witches?

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I thought that it was the zodiacal row that we were mainly talking about, at least recently, in the two threads (this one and the one about the donkey). Let me rephrase: might not the Minchiate designer's concern to preserve aspects of the zodiacal row from the Bollstater-type lot-book indicate an ...

Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch produced in Regensburg (Ratisbon) ... after 1491 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberger_Schicksalsbuch http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Berthold_Furtmeyr_Arbeitsprobe.jpg http://a-tarot.eu/p/jan-11/virgo-heid.jpg shows at this part of the picture the ...

The article of Andrea gives a "c. 1494", which is not a "real 1494". Actually it seems, that the relevant text appeared 1521 in this collection "Opera Jocunda": http://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Jocunda The Opera Jocunda starts with ... "Macarronea contra macarr...