932 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



88. Tarocchino. Playiug-Cards. ^ Bologua,'^ Italy. Nineteenth 



century. 



Pack of sixty- six cards, comprising- forty numeral-cards and twenty- 

 two atutti. The numeral-cards are like those of the preceding packs, 

 except that they are double-headed, instead of having full-length 

 figures, and in that the twos, threes, fours, and fives are suppressed, the 

 latter being the chief characteristic of the Tarocchino. The atutti bear 

 designs copied from a Florentine Minchiate set. 



According to Willshire, this modification of the Tarot game was 

 invented at Bologna, early in the fifteenth century, by Francesco 

 Fibbia (Prince of Pisa), an exile in that city, dying there in 1419. The 

 word tarocchino is a diminutive of tarocchi, a name early applied to any 

 game with Tarots. 



89. Tarots. Playing-Oards.^ French.'' Claude Burdel, 1751. 



Pack of combined Tarots ; that is, twenty- two atouts and fifty-six 

 numerals. The suits of the numeral series have the old marks: 

 Coupes^ IJeniers, Bastons, and JEjjces — " Cups," " Money," " Clubs," and 

 '' Swords." The court-cards are designated as Roy, Beyne, Cavalier, 

 and Valet. The atouts are numbered and bear the following names: 



The thirteenth card with the picture of death bears no name, and 

 tbe twenty-second, the mat, is not numbered. It will be observed that 

 the suit-marks are similar to those of Italy, this being almost uniformly 

 the case with Tarot packs. 



90. Tarok-Karten. ^ Playing-Cards. Tarots. Frankfurt- am-Main." 

 Germany. Nineteenth century. 

 Pack of seventy-eight cards, comprising fifty-six numerals and 

 twenty-two atouts. Tbe numerals bear French suit-marks, and the 

 court cards pictures of historical personages. The King of Diamonds 

 is Charles I; the Queen, Elizabeth; the Knight, Marlborough, and the 

 Knave, Shakespeare. The Hearts bear French portraits; the SjDades, 

 Russian, and the Clubs, German. The atouts are numbered from I to 

 XXI, and are ornamented with pictures referring to the four nations: 

 England, France, Germany, and Russia. 



' Cat. No. 15555, Mus. Arch., Univ. Peuii. 



^ Emilia Angioliui. 



'•> Lent by Stewart Cnlin. 



^Probably made in Switzerland. A similar pack of French Tarots in the University 

 Museum (Cat. No. 19316) is inscribed "Jacque Burdel C artier a Fribourg on Suisse, 

 1813." 



5 Cat. No. 15716, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 



6B. Dondorf. 



