Logica memoratiua : chartiludiũ logice, siue, totius dialectice memoria : & nouus Petri Hyspani textus emendatus : cum iucundo pictasmatis exercitio
Logica memoratiua is a 1509 logic textbook by Thomas Murner, printed in Strasbourg by Johann Grüninger for students of dialectic, and it is built around a card game whose rules are taught through mnemonic images. The pictures are small woodcut figures in framed rectangles, each headed by a Latin tractatus or applicatio title, and they use allegorical emblems such as a crowned woman with suns, moons and clasped hands, a horse-riding figure with fish and dogs, and an armoured man beside a tree and a sheaf of fish. A designer could take from them a compact, emblem-like way of packing symbols around a central figure inside a narrow border.
