Shedding Light on the Textual Genesis of Jacobus Publicius’ “Ars memorie” (MS London, BL, Add. 28805)

Abstract The Ars Memorativa by Publicius experienced a dilated process of transmission through an ample number of manuscripts and incunabula, which culminated in the edition of 1485 by Ratdolt. In the history of the text of Publicius’s Ars memorativa the mss. add. 28805 from the British Library is very important, as it represents a different version of the text from that of the printed texts. It also includes illustrations of the doctrine that relate it to other manuscripts such as the MS 50D from the Winchester College Fellows’ Library and the Cod. min. 113 from the Stadtbibliothek in Schaffhausen.