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Mamluk Turkish Playing Card Deck Fragment
Found by Leo Mayer in 1942, this deck provides a crucial link between the patterns of the East and those of the West. It has distilled the Persian/Indian suits down into suits very similar to those used still today in Mediterranean Europe. These are the same suits used in most Tarot decks today.
Turkey, c1400.
A dark young man. A friend.
A bad card; according to some readings, alienation.
For a woman, marriage, but probably frustrated.
Departure, Separation, Disunion
Rupture, Discord, Quarrel.