The Oldest Tarot Cards: Marziano da Tortona and Michelino da Besozzo

The Oldest Tarot Cards: Marziano da Tortona and Michelino da Besozzo

Rene d'Anjou (1408 -1480)

Fragments of Tarot History: "The following list was developed initially from items in Michael Dummett's The Game of Tarot and the first two volumes of Stuart Kaplan's The Encyclopedia of Tarot. It includes some items pertaining specifically to dice, quite a bit about regular cards and unique decks, a few chess allegories, and even some card tricks, as part of the larger historical context of Tarot."

Rhianna is interested in the larger historical scope of Tarot


MAMLUK CARDS "The accepted view is that the early history of cards in Europe was related to the invasion of North Africa, Spain and Sicily by Islamic forces during the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt which ended in 1517."


Andy's Playing Cards - The Tarot And Other Early Cards - page V - the Mamluk cards

Andy's Playing Cards - page VI - The Visconti Tarots - part 1