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Note 167: Isidore of Seville defines a picture as 'an image expressing the semblance [speciem] of something' which, when seen again, will recall to mind some matter that one wants to remember.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Note 30: Epistolae, 2.7.8: "Parieti eius cubiculi mei in bibliothecae speciem armarium insertum est quod non legendos libros sed letitandos capit" (My cubiculum has a press let into the wall that does duty as a library, and holds books not merely to be read, but read over and over again).

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Note 114: Epistolae, 2.7.8: "Parieti eius cubiculi mei in bibliothecæ speciem armarium insertum est quod non legendos libros sed letitandos capit." back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Audi filia, et vide, et inclina aurem tuam: quia concupivit Rex speciem tuam.

Archive 2009-03-01 bls 2009

But the divine intellect obviously does not have the same characteristics as ours, since in order to know something our intellect needs to be informed (per speciem) by its contents, and so is passive in a sense, whereas the divine intellect is itself the cause of its own contents.

Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

Pigmenta haec apte mixta tot vasculis, quot sunt triangulo areolae indere decreueram, e quibus ita dispositis, vt trianguli speciem referrent, facile a quouis artis pictoriae vel minus perito pigmenta depromi et suis areolis illini potuissent.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Si ex tristitia aut alio affectu caeperit, speciem considera, aut aliud qui eorum, quae subitam alterationem facere possunt.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Great-bellied women, when they long, yield us prodigious examples in this kind, as moles, warts, scars, harelips, monsters, especially caused in their children by force of a depraved phantasy in them: Ipsam speciem quam animo effigiat, faetui inducit: She imprints that stamp upon her child which she [1610] conceives unto herself.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Propè ad vallis medium sub vna rupium, apparet omni tempore visibiliter integrum ac maximum caput daemonis vsque ad humeros tantùm, cuius speciem præ horrore nullus pleno intuitu humanus audet diu oculus sustinere: nam respicientes contrà aspicit truculentèr, agitans oculos minacitèr, tanquam ex palpebris eiecturus (quæ et scintillant) flammas in altum.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Quas cùm per multos interpretes interrogassent, vbi viri terræ illius essent, responderunt, quòd in illa terra quænunque foeminæ nascebantur, habebant formam humanam, masculi vero speciem caninam.

The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004