Card 26 / 36
Book หนังสือ
- Playing card
- 10♦ Diamonds
- Tone in the original text
- Depends on position
- Other names
- Livre (FR) · Buch (DE)
Keywords
- secret
- knowledge
- study
- the unknown
- records
In a modern reading
Knowledge, learning and secrets. A closed book is something not yet known; the nearby cards hint at what the secret concerns. [13][14][11]
Text on the 19th-century card
Printed on a French Petit Lenormand (Geûens-Sea, Bruges, c. 1895–1901), Bibliothèque nationale de France [1]
Communique un secret ; sa position nous fait juger ce qu'il concerne, cependant il faut agir avec circonspection à cet égard.
Reveals a secret; its position lets us judge what it concerns, yet one must act with caution about it.
As a house in the Grand Tableau
Position 26 of the Grand Tableau is the House of the Book. A card that falls here is read in the context of secret, knowledge, study.[15][16]