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A very rare and interesting book on the art of memory

SCHENCKEL(IUS), Lambertus Thomas.
Memoria artificialis. Omnibus litterarum et sapientiae amantibus luci donata. Una cum clavicula illam legendi, modum aperiente. Arnoldi Backhusii Lubecensis.

With engraved allegorical title-page (112 x 80 mm) and some interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces.

With engraved allegorical title-page (112 x 80 mm) and some interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces.

With engraved allegorical title-page (112 x 80 mm) and some interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces.



Cologne, Wilhelmus Friessus, 1643. 12mo. Contemporary plain vellum, spine lettered in ink. With engraved allegorical title-page (112 x 80 mm) and some interesting woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (12), 3-200, (16) pp.

Third edition of this remarkable and very rare work on the art of memory, as it was reworked and edited without knowledge of the author by the Frenchman Joannes Papius (Paëpp) Galbaïcus in 1617, in which year editions appeared in Lyon and in Cologne under the title Schenckelius detectus, seu memoria artificialis. The present third edition is edited by Arnoldus Backhusius, who dedicated the work to the physician Johannes Meiboom; the dedicatory letter is dated: Cologne, 7 January 1643 (f. *2r-*3v). This letter is followed by the preface (f. *4r-*6v) and the dedication of the original edition to Rudolphus de Schauwenstein, dated Lugduni, Kal. Febr. 1617 (p. 3-19).
The text was originally published by Schenckelius himself in two volumes: De memoria libri duo, and Ars memoriae in 1593-5. A French translation was printed in 1593 as well, under the title Traité de la memoire. A re-edition appeared in Strasbourg in 1611 under the title Gazophylacium artis memoriae, which was reprinted in Rostock and Venice in 1619.Thomas Schenckelius (1547-after 1624) was born as the son of the schoolmaster and poet Dominicus Schenckel (also named 'Silvius') in 's-Hertogenbosch, Holland. He studied in Louvain and Cologne and teached in several cities in Holland, Belgium and Germany. Travelling around in North-western Europe he soon began to give public lessons or 'demonstrations' showing and teaching what he could achieve by using his 'inventions' and his variant of the Art of memory. He was very successful although he also was encountered with suspicion at many places.

Good copy from the library of Thomas Holländerus: ownership's entry in ink on the engraved title, dated 1659; library stamp on the verso: Fürstl. Hofbibl. Donauschingen.- (Right-hand margin of the title folded).
Jöcher IV, cols. 252-3; Paquot XV, 59-66; Biogr. Nat. Belg. XXI, 686-91; De Wind, p. 232ff.; NNBW V, 687.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Psychology & Psychiatry 

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