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A4 (210.1mm x 296.9mm) Soft Cover 108 pages 100 sheets (numbered) 26 lines per sheet 2 Index pages (numbered) 1 Notes page (dotted) Front Cover: Tarot de Marseille Major Arcana: I. Le Bateleur (The Magician or The Juggler) II. La Papesse (The Popess) III. L'Impératrice (The Empress) IIII. L'Empereur (The Emperor) V. Le Pape (The Pope) VI. L'Amoureux (The Lovers) VII. Le Chariot (The Chariot) VIII. La Justice (Justice) VIIII. L'Ermite (The Hermit) X. La Roue de Fortune (The Wheel of Fortune) XI. La Force (Strength) XII. Le Pendu (The Hanged Man) Back Cover: Tarot de Marseille Major Arcana: XIII. (La Mort) (Unlabelled or Death) XIIII. Tempérance (Temperance) XV. Le Diable (The Devil) XVI. La Maison Dieu (The Tower or The House of God) XVII. L'Étoile (The Star) XVIII. La Lune (The Moon) XVIIII. Le Soleil (The Sun) XX. Le Jugement (Judgement) XXI. Le Monde (The World) Le Mat (The Fool) Occultists (and many tarotists nowadays) call these twenty-two cards Les Lames Majeures de Figures (The Major Figure Cards) or Arcanes Majeures (Major Arcana) in French. The Tarot of Marseilles or Tarot of Marseille, also widely known by the French designation Tarot de Marseille, is one of the standard patterns for the design of tarot cards. It is a pattern from which many subsequent tarot decks derive. The Tarot deck was probably invented in northern Italy in the 15th century and introduced into southern France when the French conquered Milan and the Piedmont in 1499. The antecedents of the Tarot de Marseille would then have been introduced into southern France at around that time. The XIII card is generally left unlabelled in the various old and modern versions of the Tarot de Marseille. The Fool is unnumbered, as it is viewed as separate and additional to the other twenty-one numbered trumps. The use of obviously Christian traditional images (such as the Pope, the Devil, the Grim Reaper and the Last Judgement) and indeed controversial images such as La Papesse have spawned controversies from the Renaissance to the present because of its portrayal of a female pope. There is no solid historical evidence of a female pope, but this card may be based around the mythical Pope Joan. mannwilliam.com