The first examples of Tarot, in the Visconti-Sforza Tarot cards, from the mid-15th century, are un-numbered and un-titled. The first enumerated list is the Sermones de Ludo Cum Alis from the late 15th century (Kaplan, Encyclopedia of Tarot).
| Semantic Drift in the Tarot: 1450 to 2000 | |||||||||||
| Sermones: 15th |
Metropolitan: 15th |
Rosenwald: 16th |
Maison Academique: 1659 |
Vievil: 17th |
Marseilles: 18th |
Levi: 19th |
Rider-Waite: 20th |
Crowley: 20th |
Revived Tarot: 21st |
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| -- | Fool | Fool | Fool | Fool | Fool | Fool | 1 | ||||
| 1 | Juggler | Magician | Magician | Juggler | Magician | Magician | Magician | Magician | Magician | World | 2 |
| 2 | Empress | Empress | Popess | Popess | Popess | Popess | Popess | Priestess | Priestess | Wheel | 3 |
| 3 | Emperor | Popess | Empress | Emperor | Empress | Empress | Empress | Empress | Empress | Tower | 4 |
| 4 | Popess | Emperor | Emperor | Empress | Emperor | Emperor | Emperor | Emperor | Star | Emperor | 5 |
| 5 | Pope | Pope | Pope | Pope | Pope | Pope | Pope | Hierophant | Hierophant | Hierophant | 6 |
| 6 | Temperance | Temperance | Lovers | Lovers | Lovers | Lovers | Lovers | Lovers | Lovers | Lovers | 7 |
| 7 | Lovers | Chariot | Temperance | Justice | Chariot | Chariot | Chariot | Chariot | Chariot | Chariot | 8 |
| 8 | Chariot | Lovers | Justice | Justice | Chariot | Justice | Justice | Strength | Strength | Strength | 9 |
| 9 | Strength | Strength | Strength | Hermit | Strength | Hermit | Hermit | Hermit | Hermit | Hermit | 10 |
| 10 | Wheel | Wheel | Chariot | Wheel | Wheel | Wheel | Wheel | Wheel | Wheel | Sun | 11 |
| 11 | Hermit/Time | Hermit/Time | Hanged Man | Strength | Old Man | Strength | Strength | Justice | Justice | Justice | 12 |
| 12 | Hanged Man | Hanged Man | Hermit/Time | Hanged Man | Hanged Man | Hanged Man | Hanged Man | Hanged Man | Hanged Man | Hanged Man | 13 |
| 13 | Death | Death | Death | Death | Death | Death | Death | Death | Death | Death | 14 |
| 14 | Devil | Devil | Wheel | Temperance | Temperance | Temperance | Temperance | Temperance | Temperance | Temperance | 15 |
| 15 | Arrow | Tower | Devil | Devil | Devil | Devil | Devil | Devil | Devil | Devil | 16 |
| 16 | Star | Star | Tower | House of God | Lightning | House of God | House of God | Tower | Tower | Empress | 17 |
| 17 | Moon | Moon | Star | Star | Stars | Star | Star | Star | Emperor | Star | 18 |
| 18 | Sun | Sun | Moon | Moon | Moon | Moon | Moon | Moon | Moon | Moon | 19 |
| 19 | Angel | Angel | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Magician | 20 |
| 20 | Justice | Justice | World | Judgment | Judgment | Judgment | Judgment | Judgment | Judgment | Judgment | 21 |
| 21 | World | World | Judgment | World | World | World | Fool | World | World | Priestess | 22 |
| -- | Fool | Fool | World | ||||||||
| Source: Stuart Kaplan, Encyclopedia of the Tarot, Vol 2, p.191-196 US Games Systems, 1994 | |||||||||||
