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Sola Busca - Ancient Enlightened Tarot

The Sola Busca Tarot dates from the late 15th Century in Italy. The original 78 cards were printed from metal engraving plates and then illuminated. In 1934 the Sola-Busca family of Milan gave pictures of the complete deck to the British Museum, but the whereabouts of this family and their deck is no longer known. The Sola Busca is the earliest known deck to include pictorial elements on the numbered suit cards. The major arcana is quite different from the traditional. Each card shows a classical figure from history, usually a warrior. The Fool (Mato) is the only card familiar from modern decks. Tarot researchers have noted similarities between some Sola Busca cards and those of the Rider-Waite. They speculate that artist Pamela Colman Smith drew inspiration from the Sola Busca when creating her designs. This deck is also known as the Ancient Enlightened Tarot and the Illuminating Ancient Tarots.

Number of Cards Size Copyright Order Code Deck Price Book Price
78
22 major/56 minor 2 3/8" x 4 1/2" 1995 0-88079-952-8 $19.95 (US) "Sola Busca Tarot"
$10.00 (US)
How to Order
[picture of back design]

Back Design: See right

Language of Card Titles:
Major Arcana = Latin
Minor Arcana = English, French, German, Spanish, Italian

Style of Suit Cards (2-10): suit symbols with pictorial settings and figures

Also Included: title card, instruction cards in five languages

Major Arcana:
Mato, Panfilio, Postumio, Lenpio, Mario, Catulo, Sesto, Deo Tauro,
Nerone, Falco, Venturio, Tulio, Carbone, Catone, Bocho,
Metelo, Olivo, Ipeo, Lentulo, Sabino, Nenbroto, Nabuchodenasor

Suit Names: Wands, Chalices (Cups), Swords, Pentacles

Court Cards: King, Queen, Knight, Knave (Page)

Links to Other Sites:
Tea Hilander's Sola Busca website
Wicce review

SAMPLE CARD IMAGES:

[picture of King of Wands] [picture of 7 of Cups] [picture of Carbone]

Text based on U. S. Games Catalog #49 and The Encyclopedia of Tarot: Volume 1 by Stuart Kaplan, pgs. 124, 126-127; Volume 2, pgs. 197, 270, 297-302; Volume 3, pg. 30.

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