Das La Fontaine-Tarock des Leipziger Kaufmanns Peter Friedrich Ulrich, 1980

Item — Box: CFC Tarot Cards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0153.1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1980

Extent

4.75" Linear Feet : Double boxed. Leipzig: Hermann Haack. ; 4.75" x 2.5" x 1.75"

Language of Materials

German

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Extra copy from Robin Bledsoe, Boston, July, '16.

Appraisal

Taroc developed in Italy, apparently as early as the 1300's. It used a pack of 73 or 74 cards: the 52 we have come to call standard plus 21 or 22 tarot cards as trumps. This deck has the clown as the first of those 21 and then fables as the other 20. It has four picture cards in each suit plus 10 plain cards; the accompanying booklet explaining the history of this deck claims that this deck contains 78 cards, but I believe that the total is really 77. The date of the original pack of cards seems to be about 1780. This is a pleasant facsimile done in the German Democratic Republic. 2¼" x 4¼".