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Visconti B Tarot Deck Fragment
About the Deck
(aka Pierpont Morgan Bergamo Tarot Deck) One of the earliest Tarot Decks, the Pierpont Morgan Deck is entirely gilded, with fine paintings upon it.
It is estimated to have been produced around 1451 or 1452, possibly for a triumphal event in 1453.
Provenance
Italy, c. 1452.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
A fair child. A messenger. A letter.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
A dark youth; a young officer or soldier; a child.
Reversed
Sometimes degradation and sometimes pillage.
Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings
Chagrin. Misfortune averted. Danger. Unhappiness averted.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
A dark Youth, Economy, Order, Rule, Management
Reversed
Prodigality, Profusion, Waste, Dissipation.
P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Subordinate official, who is untrustworthy
Reversed
a mischief-maker.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
he (she) who loves you is in the bloom of life; but he (she) will woo (accept) another.