Maybe Ross can suggest something about this, since he is familiar with ancient moralizations of standard playing cards. The Anonymous quotes the four temperaments, but he does not link them to the suits. I'm not aware of any author who tabulates the relation suit=humour either. The earliest author ...

Here is the explanation of Ghisi's game -
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Ross

Thanks Enrique!

Rony Shachnaey sounds like a pretty cool guy. Someone walking "between the worlds", so to speak.

I think I relate to him.

A fragment is available here -
http://books.google.fr/books?lr=&cd=1&i ... rch_anchor

But not the original text.

This appears genunine - he knows Parlett's references, so it really seems to be the earliest reference to playing cards in England. I wish he had quoted the Woolgar text - or even just the form of the name "playing cards" in the source. I guess we'll have to go to the Woolgar "Househo...

Mine arrived today - I had to read it as soon as I had an hour or so, but intend to re-read and follow up the notes in more depth. All the editors did a brilliant job with lots of back-up information - highly recommended. (*) (*) (*) (*) Pen Thanks Pen! We realize they are difficult texts; it takes...

I think Huson made good use of the mystery play The Harrowing of Hell in his Mystical Origins of the Tarot, pp. 132-133, concerning the Tower.

Moakley also interprets it as the Hellmouth.

Pen wrote: BTW, clicking on the image makes it smaller rather than larger.

My cursor turns into a magnifying glass image (instead of the hand), with a + sign - click to enlarge. When I click, the magnifying glass shows a minus sign - to make it smaller again (automatic screen sizing).

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Well we certainly have to use conventional terms where they exist, and invent clear, informative, meaningful ones where they do not. And saying the full name of someting, like saying "Visconti Sforza" is easy, but continually writing "Visconti Sforza... Visconti Sforza.... Visconti Sf...