Materials for the improvement of the would-be practitioner come first: the acquisition of the “general” gifts of memory, intelligence, and eloquence, drawing upon the “figures or prayers called triumphales by Solomon”. With this stage achieved, the practitioner can move on to the “specials”. The process, however, cannot be rushed, since the “triumphals” must be repeated on eight days within a complete lunar month. The first performance should take place on the fourth day, and is repeated on the eighth, twelfth, sixteenth, twentieth, twenty-fourth, twenty-eighth, and thirtieth days. It is worth pointing out that the use of lunar days would be familiar to clerics trained in the liturgical calendar of the Church, as well as to astronomers, so this would not in itself appear sinister, despite Aquinas’ reservations. The “specials” begin with the three fundamental arts of the university syllabus: Grammar, Eloquence/Rhetoric, and Dialectic, which were collectively known as the trivium. Interestingly, the text devotes a good deal of space to these, despite their relatively low status. They are then more briefly followed by materials for a rather unorthodox version of the more advanced subjects of study: Philosophy, Medicine, Music, Geometry, Mathematics, and Theology.