Visconti A Tarot Deck Fragment

About the Deck

(aka Cary-Yale Tarot Deck or Visconti di Madrone Tarot Deck) One of the earliest Tarot Decks, the Cary Yale Visconti Deck is entirely gilded, with fine paintings upon it. Like the other Visconti decks, it features numerous heraldic devices. Unlike the other Visconti decks, it features a maid and a lady among the court cards.

Traditionally said to have been commissioned by Fillipo Maria Visconti for the 1441 marriage of Bianca Maria Visconti to Francesco Sforza I.

Provenance

Italy, c. 1441.

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Commencement of an enterprise.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Upright

Calamities of all kinds.

Reversed

A sign of birth.

Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings

Engagement. Happy marriage and riches. Broken engagement. Separation of lovers.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Birth, Commencement, Beginning, Origin, Source

Reversed

Persecution, Pursuits Voilence, Vexation, Cruelty, Tyranny.

P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Good luck, letters or papers relating to money, pleasant tidings

Reversed

short-lived happiness, a tiresome correspondence.

Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings

you will become a widower (widow) and will marry a young widow (young man) and have ten children.