The 2 documents mentioned by Andrea Vitali are here ....
http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.9948
The two passages are given as ..
Manuscript: Vat.lat.9948
1. 307v-308v: I tarocchi, dove uno si lamenta della sua inimica sec. XVI
2. 331r-336r: Triompho delli nobili donne di Cesena fat (sic) a significatione dei Tarochij
http://digi.vatlib.it/search?k_f=0&k_v= ... sec.%20XVI
The web presentation seems to be not very comfortable ... you have to go to the picture counting No. 325, which means 325 clicks. One can enlarge the pictures for better reading, but the quality of the scan is not very good.
I first looked for Nr. 1, Nr 2 was already analyzed by Andrea Vitali, I assume.
It's difficult to me to read this. At 307r is something, which I take as a Sonett, and I discover a word meaning Scaccia (chess). So somehow there's something about games. But this doesn't belong to the text of the Tarochi cards.
ADDED LATER - Andrea Vitali corrected me with this: "the verb-word “scaccia” means “remove” and it has no reference to chess." I deleted the relevant picture.
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At 307v I find the word Tarochi in 2 titles line and in the following text (20 tercets, as it seems to me, with an additional last line) occasionally card titles, which I can decipher to a greater part.
Finally I came to the opinion, that we have here a modified Ferrarese order, with the difference, that first the 3 trumps are noted, which have the big points: Mato, Bagatella, Mondo. Then it goes down from "Justa ?" (which should be Justice) to Imperatore (emperor), according the order, which was given by the Sermones de Ludo with the difference, that Imperatrice and Papessa are not given in this list (either forgotten or intentionally not used or "not known").
In the case of the Hanging Man I didn't find a Tarot-keyword in the text
The word Mato appears in the 1st tercet
The word bagatella appears in the 2nd tercet.
The word Mondo is at the 3rd tercet. But also the word Sol.
... 4 twice the word "Justa?" for Justice
langiol at tercet 5
Sol at tercet 6
Possibly Luna at tercet 7
The word stela I assume for tercet 8
The word Saeta I see at tercet 9.
Diavol at tercet 10
Morte at tercet 11
... 12 no keyword detected, possibly something hostile
Vecchio at 13
rota at 14 (also a gioco and prudenti)
... 15 something similar to Forteza
Amor at 16
carro at tercet 17
Temprar and Amor at tercet 18
The word Papa is at tercet 19.
The word Imperatore is at the final tercet 20.
The 2 title lines seem to contain the word copia ... so I assume, that the text is copied from somewhere. I read something like "Brunei Campo?.... Campeforta ? or similar, but I feel rather insecure about it.
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Well, somehow something with 20 special cards only. I feel remembered to my earlier speculations about "20 figure".
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