Tarot deck of 86 cards is comprised of 22 Major Arcana and 64 Minor Arcana. Deck includes reproductions of 67 tarocchi cards from the Collection of Playing Cards, now housed at Yale University. Ninetee cards have been recreated to replace missing originals. In addition King and Queen, each suit in the Minor Arcana contains both male female Knights and Pages, for a total of 16 cards per suit.
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Tarot deck of 86 cards is comprised of 22 Major Arcana and 64 Minor Arcana. Deck includes reproductions of 67 tarocchi cards from the Collection of Playing Cards, now housed at Yale University. Ninetee cards have been recreated to replace missing originals. In addition King and Queen, each suit in the Minor Arcana contains both male female Knights and Pages, for a total of 16 cards per suit.
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This complete 86-card Cary-Yale Visconti Tarocchi deck includes facsimile reproductions of 67 extant 15th century cards, plus 19 cards recreated to replace missing cards from the original pack. The 24 court cards are of particular interest because they include both male and female knights and pages. The 67 extant cards, believed to have been painted by Bonifacio Bembo, are housed in the Cary Collection of Playing Cards, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, at Yale University. This deluxe edition includes a 68-page guidebook with color illustrations, expanded meanings by Stuart R. Kaplan, and an in-depth history of tarot cards by Thierry Depaulis.
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