A decorative headpiece features two figures surrounded by dense foliage.

PHILOTHEUS JORDANUS

BRUNO THE NOLAN’S

CIRCEAN INCANTATION,

arranged for the practice of memory original: "ad memoriæ praxim ordinatus." This indicates that the text is not merely a story, but a structured exercise for the "Art of Memory," a Renaissance technique for organizing information in the mind..

FIRST DIALOGUE.

Speakers: CIRCE & MOERIS.

CIRCE.
SUN The large decorative initial "S" marks the beginning of Circe's prayer., who alone illuminates all things. Apollo, author of poetry, quivered, bow-holding, mighty-with-arrows, Pythian, laurel-bearer, teller-of-fates, shepherd, prophet, augur, and healer. Phoebe original: "Phæbe." Derived from the Greek phoibos (bright), this is a common title for Apollo as the god of light., rosy-colored, long-haired, beautiful-locked, golden-haired, shining, peaceful, lyre-player, singer, and truth-teller. Titan, Milesian, Palatine, Cyrrhaean, Thymbraean, Delian, Delphic, Leucadian, Regaean, Capitoline, Smynthian, Ismenian, and Latial These epithets represent Apollo's various cult sites and roles in antiquity; for example, "Delphic" refers to his famous oracle, while "Smynthian" refers to him as the "Mouse-god" who could bring or avert plague.. You who impart wondrous natures to the elements: under whose governance the seas swell and are calmed; the air and the heavens are disturbed and made clear; and the vivid force and power of fires is intensified or suppressed. By whose service the framework of this uni-
a This "a" at the bottom of the page is a signature mark, used by early printers to help binders assemble the pages in the correct order.