The series »Documenta Mnemonica« will comprise a total of 8 volumes providing access to the sources on memorial philosophy and art from antiquity to the early modern age. Volume I is the first to make available to interdisciplinary research the most important philosophical, rhetorical, theological and medical testimonies of concern with the subject of memory (memoria). The present part-volume (the first of three) contains 33 texts in chronological order by authors representing the incipient and early phase of the engagement with memory and memorialization. Multi-language keyword and name indexes, an extensive list of references and an afterword pointing up the main lines of development ensure the manual optimal utility.