Ars Notoria
Added 2022-11-23 16:09:29 +0000 UTCThe Ars Notoria (or Notary Art) is a medieval grimoire of scholastic angel magic constituting a series of prayers and knowledge sigils (or 'notae') used for rapidly learning the seven liberal arts (the Trivium: grammar, logic, and rhetoric; the Quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy).
Translated from the Latin by Robert Turner (1657)
- Full text here: https://archive.org/details/arsnotorianotory00turn/mode/2up
- For context: Claire Fanger's Invoking Angels: Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries (PSU Press, 2015) https://amzn.to/3OtsL6a
- See also Justin Sledge's recent video on the subject: https://youtu.be/vv0plm9SVIo
- For a critical edition, see Julien Véronèse, "L'Ars notoria au Moyen Age: Introduction et édition critique" (Sismel, 2007)
- For a practical edition, see Stephen Skinner's editions: https://amzn.to/3XswiG0 and https://amzn.to/3OxebKT
