The Last Derivative Texts of the Ars Notoria: The Early Modern Composites, Part II
In the first part of this two-part blog series, I covered the Ars Notoria, quam Creator Altissimus Salomoni revelavit (The Notory Art,...
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Matthias Castle
- Jul 20
- 22 min
Ars Notoria: The Notory Art of Solomon, Shewing the Cabalistical Key of Magical Operations, the Liberal Sciences, Divine Revelation, and the Art of Memory (1657), part 2
[The Special Blended Material of the Redacted Ars Notoria (Version B) and the Redacted Ars Brevis (The Short Art)] [Special Rubric] Say...
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Matthias Castle
- Jul 20
- 19 min
Ars Notoria, quam Creator Altissimus Salomoni revelavit (Latin text, part 2)
The second part of the ANQCASR continues here. AN = Ars Notoria. AB = Ars Brevis. Note that the variant passages are found in the Ars...
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Matthias Castle
- Jul 20
- 57 min
Ars Notoria, quam Creator Altissimus Salomoni revelavit (Latin text, part 1)
Here is the first part of the Latin text called Ars Notoria, quam Creator Altissimus Salomoni revelavit (The Notory Art, which the...
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Matthias Castle
- Jan 21
- 3 min
The Pauline Art [of Seven Figures]: A Fifteenth Century Derivative of the Ars Notoria
The fifteenth-century magical text of Italian origin called the Pauline Art [of Seven Figures] (Ars Paulina) claims its mythical origins...
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Matthias Castle
- Dec 17, 2023
- 7 min
Visual Guide to the Notory Art Figures of Angelic Magic, Part II
The Ars Notoria (Notory Art) reveals evidence of scribal tampering and rewriting, and the reason for this is probably a simple one. The...
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Matthias Castle
- Dec 14, 2023
- 4 min
Visual Guide to the Notory Art Figures of Angelic Magic, Part I
The magical figures of the Ars Notoria hold a strange fascination over the viewer. The magical figures are key to unlocking the doors to...
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Matthias Castle
- Dec 8, 2023
- 23 min
Onomancy: A Forbidden Art of the Ars Notoria, Part III
“There are other books having to do with such calculation, such as the books of Pythagoras, who gives many letters and figures, and for...
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Matthias Castle
- Nov 28, 2023
- 44 min
New Latin Edition of the Ars Brevis, a Derivative of the Ars Notoria
New Latin Edition of the Ars Brevis, a Derivative of the Ars Notoria The Ars Brevis is a mid-fourteenth-century treatise on angelic magic...
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Matthias Castle
- Sep 13, 2023
- 6 min
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of All the Saints (7 of 7)
The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical experiment(s). There are two versions of the Ars...
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Matthias Castle
- Sep 13, 2023
- 5 min
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of the Angels (6 of 7)
The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical experiment(s). There are two versions of the Ars...
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Matthias Castle
- Sep 13, 2023
- 6 min
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of All the Most Holy Apostles (5 of 7)
The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical experiment(s). There are two versions of the Ars...
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Matthias Castle
- Sep 13, 2023
- 2 min
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary (4 of 7)
The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical experiment(s). There are two versions of the Ars...
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Matthias Castle
- Sep 7, 2023
- 6 min
Ars Brevis: The Contested Identities of the Figures for Magical Experiments
The Ars Brevis is a mid-fourteenth-century magical treatise belonging to the ars notoria tradition, but it is most recognizably found in...
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Matthias Castle
- Aug 21, 2023
- 26 min
Necromancy: A Forbidden Art of the Ars Notoria, Part I
This article is Part 1 of 2, which may also be called “Necromancy: Six Ways to Summon the Dead.” Part 2 will present a survey of the...
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Matthias Castle
- Jul 29, 2023
- 14 min
Ars Notoria (Version A2): The “Lost” Gems of the Notory Art
After Julien Véronèse surveyed over fifty manuscripts of the Ars Notoria, he identified three versions of the textual tradition which he...
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Matthias Castle
- Jul 23, 2023
- 11 min
Onomancy: A Forbidden Art of the Ars Notoria, Part I
“Now, the seven mechanics are these: hydromancy, pyromancy, [and] nigromancy; under astrology, chiromancy, geomancy, geonogia, [and]...
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Matthias Castle
- Jul 11, 2023
- 10 min
Ars Notoria: Why is It Called the Notory Art?
The Ars Notoria (Notory Art) is a strange name for a 13th century magical handbook of prayers and figures. Why is it called that? There...
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Matthias Castle
- Jul 11, 2023
- 8 min
Agrippa’s Latin Edition of the Ars Notoria and Robert Turner’s 1657 English Translation Thereof
What was Robert Turner’s Latin source for his 1657 English translation of the Ars Notoria ? The most popularly known copy of the Ars...
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Matthias Castle
- Jul 5, 2023
- 8 min
Ars Notoria: The Little Ritual of the Saffron and Rosewater Tea
“Specifically, on that very Friday, at the dawn of the day, you must take up your four [laurel] leaves, and with saffron mixed with...
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