Re: Tarotée - The Back-Door To The Secret
Posted: 12 Jan 2015, 12:03
It's true, that card researcher Breitkopf had an excessive use of the word "Musaik". Breitkopf was an excellent printer and playing card deck producer, it makes sense, that he took part of a specific printer terminology, which wasn't generally used.
https://books.google.de/books?id=KHsPAA ... ik&f=false
Grimm's Wörterbuch with a focus on old German words doesn't know "Musaik". Generally I would assume, that less than 1 of 100 speakers of German speakers would understand "musirt", "Musaik" or "musirt".
I'm not especially interested in this coded text from Wolfenbuttel.
The first recorded Northern German (as known to me) use of a word similar to Tarot or Tarock is ...
... so it's not really plausible, that in Wolfenbüttel (Northern Germany) an excessive reference to the Tarot game was made. But ... who knows. Wolfenbüttel is strongly related to Gustavus Selenus, author of an important chess book.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_II. ... %BCttel%29
That, what is called here a "musivisches Pflaster" is called in my private understanding less mysteriously "chessboard design" or "checkered ground".
Some of the 15th/16th century Trionfi cards use this checkered ground. In my own research I took the opinion, that chess - not very mysterious, but just in trivial manner (the chess game was very popular then) - took an influence on the early development of the Trionfi cards.
Selenus was very open to the questions of this time and founded a famous library. And he was very open to games. It might well be, that his followers participated in the ancestor's extended interests.
Well, but I'm not interested to dive in the jungle discussions about a coded text, which is interpreted by its readers in a quite different manner.
Apart from this, what we know from literary sources it's obvious, that Tarot cards (in Besancon style) were produced in South-West parts of Germany before 1750. Also we know by the researches from Franco Pratesi, that Minchiate games in small numbers were exported to German cities.
http://trionfi.com/evx-minchiate-export-tuscany
Well, Cologne had many Italians, and one of them invented that, what later became Eau de Cologne and he had with his exclusive products access to highest political circles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Maria_Farina
Possibly he or his family was the commissioner, who had ordered these decks as special Italian accessories.
Well, it's not impossible, that some German freemasons made there something with Tarot around 1730. But I fear, if you want to prove this, you've a lot more to do than the explanation that you offered. It looks like "just some chaos".
In the general art of communication ... a reader must have a way to understand you. And that is also true for the author Charlatan.
http://de.scribd.com/doc/68581697/TRUE-TAROT
Already the design of the article is rather unfriendly to his readers.
The first sentence "This is the first book about the REAL use and purpose of Tarot Cards published on the outside ever - period." demonstrates simply arrogance. It isn't really a welcome.
The author recommends pdf-use, for which you have to download the text. Then it's demanded, that you pay something.
Thanks, and good-bye. The internet is full of interesting stuff to read.
Well, that's what I do, as a common reader.
https://books.google.de/books?id=KHsPAA ... ik&f=false
Grimm's Wörterbuch with a focus on old German words doesn't know "Musaik". Generally I would assume, that less than 1 of 100 speakers of German speakers would understand "musirt", "Musaik" or "musirt".
I'm not especially interested in this coded text from Wolfenbuttel.
The first recorded Northern German (as known to me) use of a word similar to Tarot or Tarock is ...
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=821&hilit=1750+tarock#p116931751: Own finding:
Anakreontische Versuche, Volume 1
Johann Franz von Palthen
printed by Weitbrecht
Johann Franz von Palthen (1724 - 1804) - worldcat has a lot of publications, but I don't found a good biography.
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AJ ... ort_yr_asc
Worldcat offers the text partly as of 1750, books.google.com has it from 1751. The publication location is Stralsund, the author also published in Rostock. He is mentioned in a short biography of his father: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Palthen ... "Ihr Sohn Johann Franz (1725–1804) wurde Advokatfiskal am Wismarer Tribunal."
The text:
http://books.google.de/books?id=xAdOAAA ... ck&f=false
... so it's not really plausible, that in Wolfenbüttel (Northern Germany) an excessive reference to the Tarot game was made. But ... who knows. Wolfenbüttel is strongly related to Gustavus Selenus, author of an important chess book.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_II. ... %BCttel%29
That, what is called here a "musivisches Pflaster" is called in my private understanding less mysteriously "chessboard design" or "checkered ground".
Some of the 15th/16th century Trionfi cards use this checkered ground. In my own research I took the opinion, that chess - not very mysterious, but just in trivial manner (the chess game was very popular then) - took an influence on the early development of the Trionfi cards.
Selenus was very open to the questions of this time and founded a famous library. And he was very open to games. It might well be, that his followers participated in the ancestor's extended interests.
Well, but I'm not interested to dive in the jungle discussions about a coded text, which is interpreted by its readers in a quite different manner.
Apart from this, what we know from literary sources it's obvious, that Tarot cards (in Besancon style) were produced in South-West parts of Germany before 1750. Also we know by the researches from Franco Pratesi, that Minchiate games in small numbers were exported to German cities.
Editor's note about the export lists: "... 62517 Minchiate decks (period 1729 - 1762), from which 72.2 % went to Roma, 11.2 % to Siena, 12.6 % to the rest of Italy and 4.0 % = 2485 to all others outside of Italy. Between them 40 decks for Colognia at 5th of January 1731 (the earliest known Minchiate deck in Germany, if they ever reached its destination; Cologne is the home of the Trionfi redaction and we're exited), 24 decks for Vienna at 22th of September 1729 a little earlier (as far I'm informed, this is decades before the earliest known Tarock note in Austria), 4 decks for Londra = London in England at 3rd of October, 1753 (this should be also the "first") and some more interesting details"
http://trionfi.com/evx-minchiate-export-tuscany
Well, Cologne had many Italians, and one of them invented that, what later became Eau de Cologne and he had with his exclusive products access to highest political circles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Maria_Farina
Possibly he or his family was the commissioner, who had ordered these decks as special Italian accessories.
Well, it's not impossible, that some German freemasons made there something with Tarot around 1730. But I fear, if you want to prove this, you've a lot more to do than the explanation that you offered. It looks like "just some chaos".
In the general art of communication ... a reader must have a way to understand you. And that is also true for the author Charlatan.
http://de.scribd.com/doc/68581697/TRUE-TAROT
Already the design of the article is rather unfriendly to his readers.
The first sentence "This is the first book about the REAL use and purpose of Tarot Cards published on the outside ever - period." demonstrates simply arrogance. It isn't really a welcome.
The author recommends pdf-use, for which you have to download the text. Then it's demanded, that you pay something.
Thanks, and good-bye. The internet is full of interesting stuff to read.
Well, that's what I do, as a common reader.