Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

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Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38 HIGH Unverified
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Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38 HIGH Unverified

Vision Reading (Phase 3 deep analysis)

Primary hand: Multiple · Hands: 3 · Type: text_page · Sig: a5r

Transcription Attempts

right_margin · Latin · LOW
oro remedio [...] Curtinus [...] medicinam [...]
'remedio' (remedy), 'medicinam' (medicine). Reader applying medical vocabulary to Poliphilo's condition. 'Curtinus' may be a personal name
right_margin_lower · Latin · LOW
[...] risica [...] excusquor [...]
Faded annotations
bottom_right · Latin · LOW
praecibus [...]
'praecibus' (with prayers). Religious vocabulary

Scholarly Significance

Page 9. Medical vocabulary ('remedio', 'medicinam') applied to Poliphilo's lovesickness and wandering. This medical-philosophical reading of love as a condition requiring remedy connects to Ficinian and Aristotelian traditions of love-theory.

Cross-references: Photo 23 (p.10, sleeping Poliphilo woodcut)
Vision reading (Claude Code, Phase 3)

Annotations

CROSS_REFERENCE (1)INDEX_ENTRY (1)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Cross Reference
“Leonardo”
. (G 86) 85 Aristotle, De Anima, see also Shields, Christopher, ‘Aristotle's Psychology’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2011/entries/aristotle-psychology/ Accessed 8/20/2013 86 James S. Ackerman, ‘Leonardo’s Eye’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 41 (1978), pp. 108– 46. 87 Stichel p. 231-2. See also P&C, p. 199ff. 88 ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 109 (Ch. 5)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Cross Reference
“Leonardo”
. (G 86) 85 Aristotle, De Anima, see also Shields, Christopher, ‘Aristotle's Psychology’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2011/entries/aristotle-psychology/ Accessed 8/20/2013 86 James S. Ackerman, ‘Leonardo’s Eye’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 41 (1978), pp. 108– 46. 87 Stichel p. 231-2. See also P&C, p. 199ff. 88 ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 109 (Ch. 5)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Index Entry
“Descrittione della fontana”
‘Descrittione’ This is the most frequently occurring term in the text, occuring over twenty times. Descrittione is never abbreviated. In using this term, Chigi is marking the occurrence of a rhetorical device, for descrittione is derived in turn from the rhetorical term descriptio, whose Greek equivalent is, in fact, ἔκφρασις. Chigi applies this term to extended lists of items which each may carry a symbolic charge. To take one example, a passage labelled ‘Descrittione della fontana’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 207 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Index Entry
“Descrittione della fontana”
‘Descrittione’ This is the most frequently occurring term in the text, occuring over twenty times. Descrittione is never abbreviated. In using this term, Chigi is marking the occurrence of a rhetorical device, for descrittione is derived in turn from the rhetorical term descriptio, whose Greek equivalent is, in fact, ἔκφρασις. Chigi applies this term to extended lists of items which each may carry a symbolic charge. To take one example, a passage labelled ‘Descrittione della fontana’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 207 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Cross Reference
“Leonardo”
. (G 86) 85 Aristotle, De Anima, see also Shields, Christopher, ‘Aristotle's Psychology’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2011/entries/aristotle-psychology/ Accessed 8/20/2013 86 James S. Ackerman, ‘Leonardo’s Eye’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 41 (1978), pp. 108– 46. 87 Stichel p. 231-2. See also P&C, p. 199ff. 88 ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 109 (Ch. 5)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Cross Reference
“Leonardo”
. (G 86) 85 Aristotle, De Anima, see also Shields, Christopher, ‘Aristotle's Psychology’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2011/entries/aristotle-psychology/ Accessed 8/20/2013 86 James S. Ackerman, ‘Leonardo’s Eye’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 41 (1978), pp. 108– 46. 87 Stichel p. 231-2. See also P&C, p. 199ff. 88 ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 109 (Ch. 5)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Index Entry
“Descrittione della fontana”
‘Descrittione’ This is the most frequently occurring term in the text, occuring over twenty times. Descrittione is never abbreviated. In using this term, Chigi is marking the occurrence of a rhetorical device, for descrittione is derived in turn from the rhetorical term descriptio, whose Greek equivalent is, in fact, ἔκφρασις. Chigi applies this term to extended lists of items which each may carry a symbolic charge. To take one example, a passage labelled ‘Descrittione della fontana’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 207 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Index Entry
“Descrittione della fontana”
‘Descrittione’ This is the most frequently occurring term in the text, occuring over twenty times. Descrittione is never abbreviated. In using this term, Chigi is marking the occurrence of a rhetorical device, for descrittione is derived in turn from the rhetorical term descriptio, whose Greek equivalent is, in fact, ἔκφρασις. Chigi applies this term to extended lists of items which each may carry a symbolic charge. To take one example, a passage labelled ‘Descrittione della fontana’ ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 207 (Ch. 8)