Home›Sources›The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake CitySourcesThe Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake CityCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/the-game-of-tarot-from-ferrara-to-salt-lake-city.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/the-game-of-tarot-from-ferrara-to-salt-lake-cityCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-the-game-of-tarot-from-ferrara-to-salt-l, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/the-game-of-tarot-from-ferrara-to-salt-lake-city}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXMichael Dummett's standard scholarly history of tarot as a card game, published by Duckworth, documenting the regional trump orders and patterns, including the well known Marseille pattern, as they actually developed for play rather than for divination. Dummett's standing as the leading historian of playing cards places this at this atlas's top tier. It is the foundational source for the game's actual history prior to its later occult reinterpretation. It documents tarot as a card game, and a claim about the occult reading of tarot cards is better drawn from Dummett's separate later studies on that specific subject, also held in this atlas.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (620 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedMichael DummettPublisherWell-attestedDuckworthPublication YearWell-attested1980URLWell-attestedhttps://www.biblio.com/book/game-tarot-ferrara-salt-lake-city/d/1666070531Source TypeWell-attestedScholarly workAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Michael Dummett's standard scholarly history of tarot as a card game, documenting the regional trump orders and patterns as they developed for play, from the leading historian of playing cards.NotesWell-attestedThe standard scholarly history of the tarot as a card game and of the regional trump orders and patterns, including the Marseille pattern.Claims Backed By This Source (620 claims)This source backs 620 claims across the atlas. As facts: 504 well-attested, 1 popular myth - corrected. As cited relationships: 11 holds. Plus 104 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicTarot, 408 claims: 330 well-attested, 78 general references.Articles, 53 claims: 52 well-attested, 1 general references.Playing Card Suits, 41 claims: 33 well-attested, 4 holds, 4 general references.Tarot Suits, 31 claims: 27 well-attested, 4 general references.Categories, 25 claims: 22 well-attested, 3 general references.Tarot Decks, 25 claims: 19 well-attested, 2 holds, 4 general references.Numbers, 10 claims: 3 well-attested, 3 holds, 4 general references.Subcategories, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 general references.Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.Studies, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.Disciplines, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.Historical Figures, 2 claims: 1 popular myth - corrected, 1 general references.Years, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.Well-attested504ArticlesA Game Before It Was an OracleA Picture of Public DisgraceA Virtue Card, Then an Alchemical OneAuthority, and the Argument Crowley StartedBoethius, and a Wheel Everyone Already KnewDogs, a Crayfish, and a Card That Was Always OddEtteilla's Legacy in CartomancyFive-card spreadsFrom Playing Card to Divination Deck: Tarot's Documented OriginHow the History Was RecoveredJudgement, and the Last Trump ProblemLe Bateleur Was a Fairground TricksterLe Pape, and the Trouble with Having a Pope in the DeckMajors, Minors and the readingOne Lover, Two Women, and an Archer OverheadOne-Card SpreadsPetrarch's Triumphs and the Shape of the SequenceSeven-card spreadsTen-Card SpreadsThe Card That May Not Have Been ThereThe Card That Was Never a TrumpThe Female Pope, and the Woman Who May Be in the CardThe First Deck Built for DivinationThe House of God, and What It Was CalledThe Least Altered Card in the DeckThe Major ArcanaThe Minor ArcanaThe Old Man Was Time Before He Was a HermitThe Orders, and What They Tell UsThe Seventy-Eight Card DeckThe Sign Itself: A Clover Called ClubsThe Sign Itself: A Pike Called SpadesThe Sign Itself: Why Diamonds Are Called Tiles in FrenchThe Sign Itself: Why Hearts Look Like ThatThe Swap That Renumbered Two CardsThe Trump Nobody Wanted to NameThirteen-card spreadsThree Different Last CardsThree Virtues, and the One That Is MissingThree-Card SpreadsTwelve-card spreadsTwo Children, One Child, and a WallTzaddi, and the Attribution Crowley MovedWhat the Documents Actually ShowWhat They Show About the Origins of TarotWhere the Four Suits Actually Came FromWhere the Suit of Coins Came FromWhere the Suit of Cups Came FromWhere the Suit of Swords Came FromWhere the Suit of Wands Came FromShowing 1 to 50 of 148 entities carrying this claim. NextPopular myth - corrected1Historical FiguresAntoine Court de GebelinHolds11DisciplinesTarotNumbers225678Playing Card SuitsClubsDiamondsHeartsSpadesTarot DecksSola BuscaThothYears1980General References104ArticlesFrom Playing Card to Divination Deck: Tarot's Documented OriginCategoriesPlaying Card SuitsTarotTarot SuitsDisciplinesTarotHistorical FiguresAntoine Court de GebelinNumbers21225678Playing Card SuitsClubsDiamondsHeartsSpadesStudiesThe Documentary History of the Tarot PackSubcategoriesMajor ArcanaMinor ArcanaTarotAce of CoinsAce of CupsAce of SwordsAce of WandsDeathEight of CoinsEight of CupsEight of SwordsEight of WandsFive of CoinsFive of CupsFive of SwordsFive of WandsFour of CoinsFour of CupsFour of SwordsFour of WandsJudgementJusticeKing of CoinsKing of CupsKing of SwordsKing of WandsKnight of CoinsKnight of CupsKnight of SwordsKnight of WandsNine of CoinsNine of CupsNine of SwordsNine of WandsPage of CoinsPage of CupsShowing 1 to 50 of 104 entities carrying this claim. 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