Le Tarot de Marseille

Le Tarot de Marseille is the book that fixed this specific name in general use and standardized the modern Grimaud printing of an older card pattern; the pattern itself predates Paul Marteau's book by centuries, and this atlas states that distinction plainly rather than letting the label imply the pattern is as recent as the name. The atlas rates it as the tradition's own compiled account of the pattern it standardized, its own claim about the deck it was written to promote, not independent historical scholarship on the pattern's origins. Use it for what the standardized modern pattern and its name actually are; a claim about the pattern's older history needs a separate historical source.