Ancient Minchiate Etruria

The “Minchiate Etruria” deck was originally published in Florence around 1725, printed from copper plate etchings and hand coloured with water colours.  Minchiate was a late-medieval card game employing a specially extended pack of 97 cards, related to Tarot but including 12 zodiac signs, 4 virtues (faith, hope, charity, prudence) and 4 elements (fire, water, air, earth). Some scholars believe that these cards may have served as teaching aids, because several trump allegories (Virtues, Elements, Zodiac signs) belong to categories upon which classical learning was based at that time.

This is a 1996 version of this deck.

**This is a gently used deck. All the cards are accounted for and we have done an energetic cleansing on it--we encourage you to do your own, like you'd do with any deck you bring home!