The Book of Memory
Page 93
texts, marginalia/glosses 264–265, 271
contemporary influence 197
translations into 328, 402, 419
Dialogus 113, 127, 196–197
, 421
works of devotion
333
use of tractandum 424
verses, mnemonic 99
William of Shoreham
330
vessel of memory
323
wisdom see sapientia
vestigia (footprints, tracks), as metaphor for
wise men (Magi),
thesauri of 41
recollection see hunting
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 26
vices 300–302
Wolfson, H. A.
57– 58, 65, 386
see also Seven Deadly Sins
women, images of, to stimulate memory
137
Vickers, Brian 412
Wood of Life (
lignum vitae) see Tree of Life
Villedieu, Alexandre de,
Doctrinale 99
‘‘word-pictures’’ 281–309
violence, in memory-images
168,
word/verbum
171 –172, 451
Augustine’s notion of ‘ inner word’
Virgil (P. Vergilius Maro)
2 1–22, 43, 84, 177
, 215,
29–30, 377
217 , 225 , 381
representational relationship with thing 28–31
Aeneid 111 , 188, 209–210, 211, 236
–237, 381
sound (parole) called to mind by visual shape
Augusteus manuscript 281
(painture) of 278
Georgics 41, 42, 44–45 , 47
unfamiliar, method of storing in memory
‘‘Wheel of’ see
Rota Virgili
157–159
virtues
see also memory for words;
parole;
as habitus 85–86
‘‘word-pictures’
Hugh of St. Victor’s depiction of
300–302
wrestling, in marginal images 323
Thomas Aquinas’s discussion of
81 –84
writing
vis aestimativa 62, 65, 244
as fundamental to human society/
vis cogitativa 62, 244, 245, 250
language 36
vis formalis 67– 68, 244
, 457
introduction into oral culture 380
vis imaginativa 62, 73 –74, 244, 457
likened to picturing 26–27
visual sense see sight
practice in, as discipline of memory 195
Vitruvius (M. Vitruvius Pollio)
177
relationship to composing 241–242
voces 291 –292
relationship to memory 9–10, 18, 34–36,
paginarum 211–212, 427
139–140, 251–252
see also voces animantium
relationship to thought 123
General index
519
as social product 36–37
Yates, Frances 17, 92, 160, 182, 192, 331–332, 417, teaching of 195
419, 423, 429
vocalizing while 243, 431
and architectural mnemonic 89, 93, 154, 178, 181
‘‘writer,’’ early usage 436
see also Isidore of Seville;
scribere; scribes;
Zeno (the Stoic) 40
scripts
Zinn, G. A. 396–397
Wyclif, John 11, 376
Zodiac 138, 159–160, 302, 324, 414
Wynkyn de Worde 409
Bradwardine’s use of 159, 167–168, 364
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Document Outline
Cover
The Book of Memory
Series Page
Title
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Preface to the second edition
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter I - Models for the memory TABULA MEMORIAE
THESAURUS SAPIENTIAE
Chapter II - Descriptions of the neuropsychology of memory THE MEMORY-IMAGE Brain physiology and the formation of memories
Thomas Aquinas: a seal impressed in wax
Dream-images and memory-images
RECOLLECTION Recollection as investigation
Memory and the habits of virtue
THE ARCHITECTURAL MNEMONIC
Chapter III - Elementary memory design THE NUMERICAL GRID Learning by heart: Hugh of St. Victor on memorizing the Psalms
Division and composition
‘‘Memoria rerum’’
Formatting the page of memory
Orality, literacy, memory, and citation of texts
Robert of Basevorn’s quoting schemes
THE ALPHABET AND KEY-WORD SYSTEM Notes and places
Writing and memory
Indices and chains
Chapter IV - The arts of memory JOHN OF GARLAND (C. 1230) AND THE BESTIARY
THOMAS BRADWARDINE, ON ACQUIRING A TRAINED MEMORY (C. 1335)
ALBERTUS MAGNUS, ARISTOTLE, AND THE RHETORICA AD HERENNIUM
TEACHING AN ART OF MEMORY IN UNIVERSITIES
MEMORY AND DIALECTIC IN THE VERBAL ARTS
Chapter V - Memory and the ethics of reading COMPOSITION AS GATHERING (OCKHAM, RICHARD DE BURY, AND PETRARCH)
MEMORY, DIGESTION, AND RUMINATION IN MONASTIC READING
TWO WAYS OF READING
FLOWERS OF READING I: HELOISE
FLOWERS OF READING II: FRANCESCA
Chapter VI - Memory and authority THE INTENTION OF THE WORK
CONSIDER THE BEES
COMPOSING A WORK: INVENTION
COLLECTING AND RECOLLECTING
THE DICTAMEN
TWO MEDIEVAL AUTHORS AT WORK
GLOSSING: MAKING A TEXT AN AUTHOR
Chapter VII - Memory and the book ‘‘PAINTURE’’ AND ‘‘PAROLE’’ Imagines rerum in psalters for study
MENTAL PICTURES Hugh of St. Victor: the construction of Noah’s Ark
Hugh de Fouilloy: The Dove and the Hawk
‘DISTINGUISHING’ THE BOOK Marginal notes
Diagrams
Appendix A HUGH OF ST. VICTOR: ‘‘THE THREE BEST MEMORY-AIDS FOR LEARNING HISTORY’’
Appendix B ALBERTUS MAGNUS: DE BONO, TRACTATUS IV, QUAESTIO II ‘‘DE PARTIBUS PRUDENTIAE’’ ARTICLE ONE: WHAT MEMORIA MIGHT BE
ARTICLE TWO: CONCERNING THE ART OF MEMORY
Appendix C THOMAS BRADWARDINE: ‘‘ON ACQUIRING A TRAINED MEMORY’’
Notes PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
Bibliography I REFERENCE WORKS
II CATALOGUES OF MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
III EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS
IV FACSIMILE EDITIONS OF MANUSCRIPTS
V HISTORY AND CRITICISM
Index of manuscripts
General index