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Ancient Minchiate Etruria Tarot - tarot decks

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About this item
  • An early (eighteenth century) tarot deck with some unusual features. The Ancient Minchiate Etruria Tarot has 41 major
  • arcana cards, which include astrological signs, the four virtues, and four elements, but not a high priestess/popess.


Specifications
Name Ancient Minchiate Etruria Tarot
Creators Pietro Alligo
Publisher Lo Scarabeo 1996
Deck Type Tarot Deck
Cards 97
Major Arcana 22
Minor Arcana 56
Deck Tradition Unique
Minor Arcana Style Unique pips
Suits Chalices, Pentacles, Swords, Clubs
Court Cards Valet, Knight, Queen, King
Strength is 7
Justice is 8
Card Size 2.19 x 4.25 in. = 5.56cm x 10.79cm
Card Back Unknown


Reviews

The Minchiate adds the remainder of the virtues, all the zodiacal signs, the four elements and the Grand Duke to the suit of trumps. The Emperor has been replaced by a Western Emperor and an Eastern Emperor. However, the Papess, Empress and Pope have been deleted - or as some would suggest - perhaps renamed. If reversals are used, Minchiate gives a resolution of 194 basic states, from which of course placement and intuition can lead one towards infinite depths of meaning. For those interested in further study of the Minchiate, the book accompanying the Brian Williams inchiate Tarot has been highly recommended.

The Ancient Minchiate Etruria is a photo-reproduction of a Florentine deck dated 1725. The graphics are smooth, attractive and artistic: the originals themselves were etched and then hand-finished in watercolour. In this Lo Scarabeo publication, many of the cards seem to have cropped so as to lose part of the original content, which is obvious in that the numbered flags on the Majors are not always shown in full. It may be that in the source deck some of the cards were damaged near the edges. The back is a reproduction of the original, and technically it is non-reversible.

The cards are playing card sized, and although the deck is nineteen cards larger than a standard Tarot, I found it very easy to shuffle. Admittedly I do have long fingers - those with smaller hands might need to divide the deck into two for easier use. The cards are finished well, neither too glossy nor too rough. Several of the pip-type Minors have cute little flourishes on them, such as a monkey with a mirror, or a hedgehog encountering a smaller rodent. I enjoy this deck: it has a friendly, quirky, innocent and light-hearted feel.

As packaged by Lo Scarabeo, the cards were separated into three groups, each wrapped in cellophane. It was nice to see this care taken to protect the cards during shipping. However, much to my surprise, the cards within each of these groupings were in an almost random order, particularly frustrating for a deck which is significantly different from the Tarots most people are used to. To add to the perplexity, the enclosed foldout paper which lists the cards is worse than useless since it contains several errors. Contrary to the listing, this Minchiate does not contain either an Empress or a Hierophant; nor does it contain two Justice cards, but only one. Tom Tadfor Little lists the correct card assignments in his discussion of arot and Minchiate of Florence.

In using this deck for divination, I have found the Ancient Minchiate Etruria accurate and pleasantly eccentric, and surprisingly I have not felt any loss in the missing Papess (one of my favourite cards), Empress or Pope. There are several other cards which will manifest various aspects of these archetypes, including the astrological cards which add great richness to one's readings. Used as a meditational tool, the addition of the missing virtues, four elements and signs of the zodiac would make for a fascinating inner journey. Although not suitable for the beginner, this deck makes an engaging and stimulating addition to one's Tarot toolbox.


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