Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Why It Matters for the Hypnerotomachia

The editio princeps was published by Aldus Manutius in Venice in December 1499. It is a folio volume with 172 woodcut illustrations, historiated initials, and the authorship acrostic. It is the basis for this project's signature map and concordance pipeline.

Why It Matters in Scholarship

Russell's world census was conducted primarily through ISTC records. The 1499 edition is the reference text for all bibliographic, codicological, and annotation studies of the HP. Approximately 200 copies survive in institutional and private collections.

Key Passages / Evidence

• <!-- Page 9 --> apart from the few that needed to be replaced because of loss or damage. He could simply set the new edition from the old one. Comparison of the 1499 and 1545 editions of... [Word_Image_2015_apr_03_vol_31_iss_2_Farrington_Lynne_Though_I_could_lead_a_quiet]
• ... the irst case, even though the boundary is crossed from the image to the text, there is no blank space for the reader to ill with his or her imagination, but rather the paratextual essay... [Priki (text-image boundary)]
• <!-- Page 58 --> 3 Methodology The purpose of this chapter is to describe and justify the means by which annotated copies were located, selected, analyzed, and interpreted. First, it... [Russell 2014 (PhD thesis)]

Source Documents

Lefaivre 1997 (Alberti attribution); Priki (text-image boundary); Priki 2009 (reception); Russell 2014 (PhD thesis); The_Modern_Language_Review_1955_jan_vol_50_iss_1_Francon_Marcel_Francesco_Colonn; The_Narrative_Function_of_Hieroglyphs_in; Trippe 2002 (text-image); Word_Image_2015_apr_03_vol_31_iss_2_Farrington_Lynne_Though_I_could_lead_a_quiet; Word_Image_2015_apr_03_vol_31_iss_2_Pumroy_Eric_L_Bryn_Mawr_College_s_1499_editi