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Historical decks

Each deck below has a page made from its grammar: what it is, its history, its cards and its sources.

• Ma Diao · money cards, 14th–15th c.
• Mamluk · c. 1400 (Topkapı c. 1500)
• Cary-Yale Visconti · c. 1442
• d'Este · c. 1450
• Visconti-Sforza · c. 1451
• 'Charles VI' (Ferrara) · c. 1450–80
• Mantegna Tarocchi · c. 1465
• Sola Busca · 1491
• Cary Sheet · c. 1500
• no image shown hereRosenwald Sheet · c. 1500
• no image shown hereMinchiate · c. 1506+
• Ganjifa · 16th c.+
• no image shown hereTarot de Paris · c. 1600–50
• no image shown hereJean Noblet · c. 1650
• no image shown hereJacques Viéville · c. 1650
• no image shown hereTarocchino di Bologna · 17th c.
• Tarocco Siciliano · 18th c.→
• Tarot de Marseille (Conver) · 1760
• Belgian (Vandenborre) · c. 1780
• Court de Gébelin · 1781
• no image shown hereEtteilla I · 1788–89
• Tarot de Besançon · 18th–19th c.
• no image shown hereEtteilla II · c. 1838
• no image shown hereEtteilla III · c. 1865
• no image shown hereTarocco Piemontese · 1865 (pattern from c. 1735)
• no image shown hereOswald Wirth · 1889
• no image shown herePapus · 1889
• Golden Dawn (Book T) · 1888 · RWS 1909

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