Hello, Hi Bertrand. I was just repeating what Dennis Clay, the page author said on the site. I understood that don't worry. But It is hard for me to understand on what criteria a card from XVIII century should be copyrighted. in France at least, a picture of a copyrighted work is copyrighted. But fo...

Hello, I don't know if this has been done - I assume since Dummett doesn't mention it he didn't - but certain figures could be estimated from the Fermiers Generaux archives and other taxes to know at the moment taxes were imposed how many decks were created, I believe this is Depaulis methodology. R...

Hello By the way. I don't know if it is of general knowledge. But I've found the Chosson on a awesome page with near 20, copyright free, full deck images on https://tarotmeditations.wordpress.com/decks/ . I don't think that pictures from the Bibliotheque Nationale can be copyright free, regarding th...

Hello, If a scientist were to carry out an experiment with a sample of 4 (or 40!) out of a pool of 1,000,000, I wonder how reliable the research would be? I may be wrong and would like to be corrected if I am, but in my understanding, the million is an evaluation of the number of copies, not the num...

Hello,

Huck wrote: double page . 51 .... Torot

you can discard this one, as it is simply a typo which doesn't appear in earlier editions, the oldest I found(1595) reads "tArot" (I capitalize) at the same place.

Bertrand

Curious but this is not a unique case, if I remember correctly, there are the same kind of visible anatomy (although some of them are more or less well defined) on three horses in the Vieville deck (two on the knights cards, and more clearly on the sun card) - I'm a bit tired to check right now. Ber...

16 pages.... Start over again ! But I'm not sure we could (well, to be honest, "you" would be more appropriate since I don't believe I would be of a big help) start without a first draft as reference, which could be updated on the go. Maybe that kind of collaborative tool would be useful (...

Hello, The proposed beginner's area would only be useful if it remains uncluttered by theory. [...]Already RLG's Ur-Tarot question is overwhelmed by Huck's theories, and it is very hard for a beginner to sort out what is Huck's opinion and what is indisputable fact. I completely and definitely agree...

Hello Pen,

Wikipedia tells she was born in 1594 and deceased in 1657, so the timeframe is very short to fit with the Tarot de Paris (early XVIIth). Do any other clues made you think about this potential relationship ?

Bertrand

I translated it as if both terms ( naibi a trionfi and carte da trionfi ) mean the same thing - i.e., they refer to the exact same object, a pack of triumph cards - so that any distinction in literal sense would convey no information. that is a very likely so. Do you think there might be a differen...