Rhetorica ad Herennium III.28–40
The foundational Roman text.
Artificial memory is built from loci and imagines, places and images. Librorum Capsula has the section on memory, III.28–40, not the whole treatise.
Augustine, de Memoria
Memory as fields and palaces.
The reader has Confessions X, with selections from De Trinitate and De Genesi ad Litteram. Augustine walks through the “fields and palaces” of memory, turning an ancient technique into an investigation of the mind. On LC’s difficulty scale: 8.0 (Advanced).
Magister Hainricus, Ars memorandi
A fifteenth-century handbook.
A compact handbook that turns the theory into a procedure, with a ready-made memory building of ten rooms and fifty figures. Modern scholarship dates the work to 1447; LC’s text is the 1473 Nuremberg printing by Friedrich Creussner. On LC’s difficulty scale: 5.6 (Intermediate).
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Rhetorica ad Herennium III.28-40
The method of places and images, in the foundational Roman text.
Augustinus de Memoria
Augustine’s exploration of memory and the mind.
Ars memorandi
A fifteenth-century guide to building a memory palace.