Le Tarots Marseille de Jean Dodal
Hand-colored majors-only Jean Dodal Marseille reissue by French historian.
by JC Flornoy · 2002
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The record
"Le Tarots Marseille de Jean Dodal" is a hand colored, Majors only, version of the "Jean Dodal Tarot", re-edited by French Tarot historian and Cartier-enlumineur Jean-Claude Flornoy. The deck comes with a LWB (Little White Book) in French, along with an English translation in an accompanying pamphlet. For those who may be concerned about the rigors of overseas shipping playing havoc on their deck, they need not fear ... the deck and pamphlet are very well packaged ... no harm is going to come to anything. Flornoy's body of work also includes a Majors only, hand colored version of the "Jean Noblet Tarot", and a complete 78 card version of the "Jean Noblet Tarot" (for which Flornoy had to interpret the Six through Ten of Swords, as these cards are missing from the only existing copy of the deck, which is preserved in the French National Library). One of the things that I like about Flornoy's work is that it is thorough, and well presented. In the LWB for this deck, Flornoy begins with a discussion of the Legend of the Tarot of Marseille. This is most helpful for those like myself who have never really worked with a Marseille deck before. He speaks of its imagery as being western in o
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