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and they are destined for both. The Middle Ages were
concerned with techniques that would enable man to
remember and to compare many such areas of ideas.
Under this impulse, Raymond Lully wrote his Ars Memoria ,
the Art of Memory. Similar preoccupations also resulted in
the early block print, Ars Memorandi , printed about 1470.
The author undertook the difficult task of making
concrete the themes contained in the Four Gospels. For
each Gospel, he created a few images, angels, bulls, lions,
and eagles, emblems of the four Evangelists, upon which
he imposed objects that were to suggest the stories
treated in each chapter. Figure 231 shows the angel
(Matthew), containing eight smaller emblems that were
to recall Matthew’s eight first chapters. In visualizing
every figure of Ars Memorandi with all their emblems, one
would remember the stories of the entire Gospel.