Moorish Playing Card Deck Fragment

About the Deck

From an uncut sheet found in a museum in Barcelona. This deck provides an important link between the Mamluk deck pattern and the Mediterranean deck pattern, because it shares features of both; in general it looks fairly European, but the wands look like Polo Sticks and the Cups still look like Myriads, harking back to Ancient Chinese money-suited cards.

Provenance

Spain, c. 1414.

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Mutual love.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Upright

Unexpected advancement for a military man.

Reversed

Consolation, cure, end of the business.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Success, Triumph, Victory, Favourable issue

Reversed

Expedition of business, Quickness, Celerity, Vigilance.

Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings

a son born in the course of the year; unity of sentiment.