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[TAROT CARDS]. Nicholas BODET. Cartes de Taraut. Brussels, ca. 1743-1751.
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[TAROT CARDS]. Nicholas BODET. Cartes de Taraut. Brussels, ca. 1743-1751.
Complete set of hand-colored woodcut Tarot cards, with decorative paper backs, each 118 x 70 mm, in a 19th-centiry calf album (loose and unmounted), gilt-lettered on upper cover (joints rubbed). With 19th-century watercolor title by Edith Weller and 1-leaf manuscript description of tarot cards. Provenance:William Courthope, Somerset Herald; by decent; Robert B. Gardiner (note on flyleaf: "The pack of Tarauts contained in this book, formerly belonged to William Courthope, Somerset Herald, who died in 1866: by his widow they were given to his nephew & executor Robert B. Gardiner by whose orders they were bound in these covers 1880"; bookplate).
An early example of the "Rouen/Brussels" Latin-suited tarot, and probably the earliest produced in Brussels. Tarot decks contain 78 cards comprising 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana. The Minor Arcana contain four court cards and ten pip cards in each of four suits. Each card in the Bodet deck has a black woodcut border. The titles of the court cards and Major Arcana are printed beneath the figures. The Major Arcana are each numbered at top with their position in the deck.
Complete set of hand-colored woodcut Tarot cards, with decorative paper backs, each 118 x 70 mm, in a 19th-centiry calf album (loose and unmounted), gilt-lettered on upper cover (joints rubbed). With 19th-century watercolor title by Edith Weller and 1-leaf manuscript description of tarot cards. Provenance:William Courthope, Somerset Herald; by decent; Robert B. Gardiner (note on flyleaf: "The pack of Tarauts contained in this book, formerly belonged to William Courthope, Somerset Herald, who died in 1866: by his widow they were given to his nephew & executor Robert B. Gardiner by whose orders they were bound in these covers 1880"; bookplate).
An early example of the "Rouen/Brussels" Latin-suited tarot, and probably the earliest produced in Brussels. Tarot decks contain 78 cards comprising 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana. The Minor Arcana contain four court cards and ten pip cards in each of four suits. Each card in the Bodet deck has a black woodcut border. The titles of the court cards and Major Arcana are printed beneath the figures. The Major Arcana are each numbered at top with their position in the deck.