Cover
Cover back
Suits
5
Cards
97
Publisher
A. Baragioli
Place
Florence
Year
c. 1870
Pattern
Minchiate
License
Public domain

A Florentine Minchiate — 97 cards, the largest historical tarot. Forty trumps and the Fool in place of twenty-two, holding the four cardinal and three theological virtues, the four elements and the twelve signs of the zodiac. The top five trumps — Star, Moon, Sun, World and the Trumpets — carry no numeral and rank above everything numbered; the Trumpets is captioned FAMA VOLAT, rumour flies. Printed by A. Baragioli in Florence between 1860 and 1890. Scans from the Bibliothèque nationale de France via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

Trumps

Cups

Coins

Swords

Batons