A rare gem of the old Italian tradition, unearthed by Anima Antiqua. Minchiate Al Cigno is a philological reproduction of the famous Bolognese deck: 97 cards of profound historical and artistic value, in a limited edition of 3999 copies for true collectors only.
Bologna 1775 ca.,
97 cards, 57x102 mm.
Instructions. Multilingual edition.
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Before Aleister Crowley, before Arthur Edward Waite and Pamela Colman Smith, before the Golden Dawn, before Papus, Éliphas Lévi, and Etteilla, the first author to describe an occult version of the Tarot was Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de Fayolle, comte de Mellet, writing in Antoine Court de Gébelin’s, 1781, eighth volume of his monumental encyclopedia, Monde primitif.
The comte de Mellet associated the Tarot’s trumps with the Classical Ages of Man: the Age of Gold, the Age of Silver, and the Age of Iron. He correlated the Trumps with the letters in the Hebrew alphabet, he described the minor suits in detail, and he provided the earliest discussion of a divination technique for the Tarot.
£39.99