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Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary (4 of 7)
This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical...
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Sep 13, 20232 min read
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit (3 of 7)
This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical...
Matthias Castle
Sep 10, 20237 min read
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of the Holy Cross (2 of 7)
This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical...
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Sep 10, 20235 min read
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of the Holy Trinity (1 of 7)
This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical...
Matthias Castle
Sep 10, 20235 min read
Ars Brevis: The Contested Identities of the Figures for Magical Experiments
This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . The Ars Brevis is a mid-fourteenth-century magical treatise belonging to the ars notoria ...
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Sep 7, 20236 min read
Necromancy: A Forbidden Art of the Ars Notoria, Part I
This text is part of the Divination Hub . This article is Part 1 of 2, which may also be called “Necromancy: Six Ways to Summon the Dead.”...
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Aug 21, 202327 min read
Ars Notoria (Version A2): The “Lost” Gems of the Notory Art
This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . After Julien Véronèse surveyed over fifty manuscripts of the Ars Notoria , he identified...
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Jul 29, 202314 min read
Onomancy: A Forbidden Art of the Ars Notoria, Part I
This text is part of the Divination Hub . “Now, the seven mechanics are these: hydromancy, pyromancy, [and] nigromancy; under astrology,...
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Jul 23, 202311 min read
Ars Notoria: Why is It Called the Notory Art?
This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . The Ars Notoria ( Notory Art ) is a strange name for a 13th century magical handbook of...
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Jul 11, 202310 min read
Agrippa’s Latin Edition of the Ars Notoria and Robert Turner’s 1657 English Translation Thereof
This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . What was Robert Turner’s Latin source for his 1657 English translation of the Ars Notoria ?...
Matthias Castle
Jul 11, 20238 min read
Ars Notoria: The Little Ritual of the Saffron and Rosewater Tea
This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . “Specifically, on that very Friday, at the dawn of the day, you must take up your four...
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Jul 5, 20238 min read
Where are the Original Latin Texts of the Ars Notoria Tradition?
This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . The original Latin texts for the Ars Notoria and its derivative texts, excluding the Liber...
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Jul 2, 20237 min read
Summa Sacre Magice, Part III
This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . The Summa Sacrae Magicae (the SSM , transcribed as Summa Sacre Magice ) is a...
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Jul 2, 20234 min read
History of the Jenney Latin Series (1953-1990): A Review of a Latin Program for Language Learners
Many students have learned Latin thanks to the Jenney Latin Series over the years. Some sing the praises of Latin for its influence on...
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Apr 27, 202331 min read
Summa Sacre Magice, Part II
This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . The following is a Latin transcription of the Ars Notoria section of the Summa Sacre...
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Apr 27, 202314 min read
Summa Sacre Magice, Part I
This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . This is my English translation of the Ars Notoria prayers found in the Summa Sacrae Magicae...
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Apr 26, 202310 min read
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