Sola Busca Tarot

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Card from the Sola Busca tarot

The Sola Busca Tarot is a late 15th century tarot game . It was made by an unknown artist, among others Marco d'Antonio di Ruggero is believed to be the author. A complete and colored game was owned by the Sola-Busca family in Milan and was sold to the Italian Ministry of Culture in 2009. It is now located in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. Non-colored prints that are only available in fragments are in Vienna and in the British Library .

The Sola-Busca game is the first known tarot game in history to have the structure that is considered classic today with 78 cards (22 trumps and 4 times 14 color cards each). It is also the first known tarot in which the trumps are named and numbered. The names and representations of the cards differ from today's - the Sola Busca Tarot depicts historical people, including Nebuchadnezzar or Marius , the uncle of Julius Caesar . The cards of the trumps seem to illustrate the rise and fall of the Roman Empire . It is also the first tarot game and, up to the 19th century game by Pamela Colman Smith and Arthur Edward Waite , the only one to illustrate the number cards with scenes. Parallels between the cards of the Sola Busca and Waite Smith Tarot suggest that Pamela Colman Smith and Arthur Edward Waite knew the Sola Busca Tarot and were influenced by it.

The Sola Busca version was photographed for the British Library in 1907 and illustrated by Arthur M. Hind in 1938 in Early Italian engraving: a critical catalog with complete reproduction of all the prints described , London 1938–1948, volume 1.

A full version of Sola-Busca-Tarot was published in 1998 by Wolfgang Mayer in Germany.

literature

  • Sofia Di Vincenzo, Antichi Tarocchi Illuminati. L'alchimia nei Tarocchi Sola-Busca , with historical introduction by Giordano Berti , (Italian), Lo Scarabeo, Turin, 1995
  • Sofia Di Vincenzo, Sola Busca Tarot , with historical introduction by Giordano Berti, (English), US Games Systems, 1998, ISBN 1-5728-1130-7
  • Giordano Berti, 'Tarocchi Sola-Busca', in Le carte di Corte. I tarocchi. Gioco e magia alla corte degli Estensi , Nuova Alfa Editoriale, Bologna 1987, pp. 88-89.
  • Stuart Kaplan, The Encyclopedia of Tarot , Vol. 2, US Games Systems, 1986, p. 297

Web links

Commons : Sola-Busca tarot deck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. I tarocchi Sola Busca. (PDF; 883 KB) Pinacoteca di Brera, accessed on March 12, 2020 (English).