Re: Biblical virtues and lights in the sky
Posted: 16 Aug 2018, 02:31
There is a lot of time between 1400-1500, 100 years. There must have existed a lot of different playing cards. We know only a small number of cards, which still exist.
We cannot expect, that we know from all the once existing deck types of the mentioned period one example. In fact the situation should be so, that we know only a very small part of these deck types. We have, that a lot of decks are very different to each other. Boiardo Tarocchi poem, Sola Busca, Guildhall, Goldschmidt, Michelino deck, Mantegna Tarocchi ... all are different models.
If we would have more cards from the time, likely we would know also more different models of decks.
We cannot expect, that we know from all the once existing deck types of the mentioned period one example. In fact the situation should be so, that we know only a very small part of these deck types. We have, that a lot of decks are very different to each other. Boiardo Tarocchi poem, Sola Busca, Guildhall, Goldschmidt, Michelino deck, Mantegna Tarocchi ... all are different models.
If we would have more cards from the time, likely we would know also more different models of decks.