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  • Likewise, the slips of paper (notae) found in each studiolo, peeking out of books or "pinned" to the intarsia, represent another medieval technique of impressing significant passages into the memory.

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

  • Petrarch, whose writings offered subsequent humanists a bridge to medieval and ancient traditions, had composed a private dialogue with Augustine in which the saint encourages him to transcribe wholesome maxims from his readings onto notae and into the margins of his manuscripts.

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

  • These are propositions that are not per se notae ex terminis and do not follow from such propositions, but are "highly consonant" with such propositions.

    John Duns Scotus Williams, Thomas 2007

  • Per se notae means that they are self-evident; ex terminis adds that they are self-evident in virtue of being analytically true.

    John Duns Scotus Williams, Thomas 2007

  • Optime nutrit omnium judicio inter primae notae pisces gustu praestanti.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quotes, pointing hands, notae, page numbers, all occur in the margins, all direct your attention to somewhere else, all invite you to reread, to rethink.

    Peter S. Hawkins, Dante: A Brief History, Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006) Miglior acque 2006

  • Quotes, pointing hands, notae, page numbers, all occur in the margins, all direct your attention to somewhere else, all invite you to reread, to rethink.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Miglior acque 2006

  • In a second edition, which appeared in 1590, he included some Breves notae (“Brief Notes”) on the first three books; and a year later he published Liber de una religione (“Book on One Religion”), written in response to Coornhert™s objections to his views on toleration.

    Justus Lipsius Papy, Jan 2004

  • Even though Boethius, in line with the Aristotelian writings he commented on, focuses on the concept of linguistic signification and hardly ever explicitly speaks of signs (notae) in general

    Medieval Semiotics Meier-Oeser, Stephan 2003

  • Carseolano itemque in Albano generis Aminei vites huius modi notae habuerimus. '

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

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  • Notae constitutes the plural of "nota." Nota (n.) signifies "a mark, sign, or symbol; †a stigma (obs.) (Oxford English Dictionary, online).

    June 17, 2011