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Lugduni [Lyon]: Apud Bartholomaeum Vincentium, 1617. FIRST EDITION. 140 x 82 mm. (5 1/2 x 3 1/4"). 208, 213, 210, 211, 216-17 pp. (pagination erratic but text complete). Contemporary calf, rebacked to style, raised bands with gilt Greek key roll, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. Front pastedown with bookplate of Bernard Zufall; verso of title page with red ink "Duplicate" stamp of his library. Yates, "The Art of Memory" (1966), pp. 300-302. ◆Calf marked and rubbed, corners very worn, leaves a shade less than bright, but a perfectly decent copy, clean and fresh internally, and in a sound, unassuming binding. This guide to creating "artificial memories" (i.e., mnemonic devices) is based on the work of Dutch memory teacher Lambert Schenkel (1547 - ca. 1603), whose feats of recollection were so formidable that he was declared a sorcerer. Here, Schenkel's disciple Paëpp (d. ca. 1613) has revised and abridged the master's 1609 "Gazophylacium Artis Memoriae." In the process, he "detects Schenkel,"…
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SCHENCKELIUS DETECTUS, SEU, MEMORIA ARTIFICIALIS HACTENUS OCCULTATA AC A MULTIS QUAM DIU DESIDERATA: NUNC PRIMUM IN GRATIAM OPTIMARUM ARTIUM, AC SAPIENTIAE STUDIOSORUM LUCE DONATA
by (MEMORY). (SCHENCKEL, LAMBERT THOMAS). PAËPP, JAN
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