Cary Yale Sheets
3 sheets, described at Kaplan, Encyclopedia II, p. 285 - 287.
2 sheets contain no trumps, and are uninteresting. The 3rd contains 6 full cards and 14 fragments.
| Hanged Man | Wheel | Chariot | Lovers | Justice |
| Strength | Popess (or Pope) | Emperor | Empress | Pope (or Popess) |
| Sun | Moon | Star | Magician | Fool |
| Tower | Devil | Temperance | 7 of staves | 8 of staves |
The trumps are unnumbered, but perhaps the position of the cards on the sheet gives arguments to conclude a related numerology, which would be near to the numerology of the Tarocco Sicialiano (the only numerology, which gives the Hanging Man the number 11, the chariot the number 9 and Fortitudo/Strength the number 6). Kaplan in his "Comparison of numbering and titles for Major Arcana" (Kaplan II, p. 186 ff.) doesn't use this indirect sequence inside the Cary-Yale sheet. In a similar direction presents the rather unclear Rosenwald sheet.
| 11 ? | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 |
| 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| 19 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | 15 | 14 | x | x |
| reconstructed
Cary Yale Sheet |
Tarocco Siciliano late 17th century |
Rosenwald Sheet | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Fool | id. | ---- |
| 1 | Magician | id. | id. |
| 2 | Popess | Empress | id. 2 Popess |
| 3 | Empress | Emperor | id. 3 Empress |
| 4 | Emperor | Constancy | id. 4 Emperor |
| 5 | Pope | Temperance | id. 5 Pope |
| 6 | Strength | id. | 6 Lovers |
| 7 | Justice | id. | 7 Temperance |
| 8 | Lovers | id. | 8 Justice |
| 9 | Chariot | id. | 8 Fortitudo |
| 10 | Wheel | id. | 10 Chariot |
| 11 | Hanging Man | id. | 12 Hermit |
| 12 | --- | Hermit | Hanging Man |
| 13 | --- | Death | Wheel |
| 14 | Temperance | Death | |
| 15 | Devil | = 14 Ship | Devil |
| 16 | Tower | = 15 Tower | Tower |
| 17 | Star | = 16 Star | Star |
| 18 | Moon | = 17 Moon | Moon |
| 19 | Sun | = 18 Sun | Sun |
| --- | = 19 World | World | |
| --- | = 20 Judgment | Judgment | |
| --- | Beggar, unnumbered | ---- |
The Cary Yale Sheet is dated usually as "around 1500" and many see in it the older tradition of the later Marseille Tarot (first examples ca. 1650) ... for instance cause of the similarities in the Moon-cards.