Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

205 Detail, (a8r) Notwithstanding these eye-catching features, this chapter will direct its attention to a more unobtrusive feature in the Siena copy, which may yet bear a profound significance. Scattered between these illustrations are a type of marginalia not evident in any of the previously-examined copies. At intermittent locations throughout the book, two of the hands have written extensions to the printed sentence which continue into the margins. These continuations form a...

205 Detail, (a8r) Notwithstanding these eye-catching features, this chapter will direct its attention to a more unobtrusive feature in the Siena copy, which may yet bear a profound significance. Scattered between these illustrations are a type of marginalia not evident in any of the previously-examined copies. At intermittent locations throughout the book, two of the hands have written extensions to the printed sentence which continue into the margins. These continuations form a...

226 possibly through ‘reverse engineering’ Poliphilesque terms of Greek origin by use of Torriani. Other examples include: a2v: Agrypnia > vigilia a8r: panglypho > tutoreliono b3r: lithogliphi > Saxisculptura d3r: micropsycho > .l. pusilanimo The latiniser also translates the Greek motto on the cloth hanging over the elephant’s brow on the ‘Elephant and Obelisk’ statue, as ‘labor et industria.’ (b7r, G 37). The Sydney hand takes a particular interest in latinizing the symbolic n...

205 Detail, (a8r) Notwithstanding these eye-catching features, this chapter will direct its attention to a more unobtrusive feature in the Siena copy, which may yet bear a profound significance. Scattered between these illustrations are a type of marginalia not evident in any of the previously-examined copies. At intermittent locations throughout the book, two of the hands have written extensions to the printed sentence which continue into the margins. These continuations form a...

205 Detail, (a8r) Notwithstanding these eye-catching features, this chapter will direct its attention to a more unobtrusive feature in the Siena copy, which may yet bear a profound significance. Scattered between these illustrations are a type of marginalia not evident in any of the previously-examined copies. At intermittent locations throughout the book, two of the hands have written extensions to the printed sentence which continue into the margins. These continuations form a...

226 possibly through ‘reverse engineering’ Poliphilesque terms of Greek origin by use of Torriani. Other examples include: a2v: Agrypnia > vigilia a8r: panglypho > tutoreliono b3r: lithogliphi > Saxisculptura d3r: micropsycho > .l. pusilanimo The latiniser also translates the Greek motto on the cloth hanging over the elephant’s brow on the ‘Elephant and Obelisk’ statue, as ‘labor et industria.’ (b7r, G 37). The Sydney hand takes a particular interest in latinizing the symbolic n...