Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

its original wholeness. These notes do not have the character of glosses, since they extend the text rather than comment upon it. For example, in the original text of the following passage, the sentence ends with the phrase ‘lucido et terso’ followed by a full stop. Le due prompte Porphyrice columne Dorice di septe diametri, sopra qualunque di questi cusì explicati quadrati premevano di puniceo colore fusco cum gli sui orbiculetti più chiari, confusamente diseminati, lucido et terso. (...

its original wholeness. These notes do not have the character of glosses, since they extend the text rather than comment upon it. For example, in the original text of the following passage, the sentence ends with the phrase ‘lucido et terso’ followed by a full stop. Le due prompte Porphyrice columne Dorice di septe diametri, sopra qualunque di questi cusì explicati quadrati premevano di puniceo colore fusco cum gli sui orbiculetti più chiari, confusamente diseminati, lucido et terso. (...

pte diametri, sopra qualunque di questi cusì explicati quadrati premevano di puniceo colore fusco cum gli sui orbiculetti più chiari, confusamente diseminati, lucido et terso. (c5r) Two freestanding Doric columns of porphyry, seven diameters high, stood on each of these two squares that I have described. They were bright and polished, and dark red, randomly dotted with circles of lighter colour. (G 49) In the Siena copy, an annotator extends the final line with additional material ...

pte diametri, sopra qualunque di questi cusì explicati quadrati premevano di puniceo colore fusco cum gli sui orbiculetti più chiari, confusamente diseminati, lucido et terso. (c5r) Two freestanding Doric columns of porphyry, seven diameters high, stood on each of these two squares that I have described. They were bright and polished, and dark red, randomly dotted with circles of lighter colour. (G 49) In the Siena copy, an annotator extends the final line with additional material ...

co cum gli sui orbiculetti più chiari, confusamente diseminati, lucido et terso. (c5r) Two freestanding Doric columns of porphyry, seven diameters high, stood on each of these two squares that I have described. They were bright and polished, and dark red, randomly dotted with circles of lighter colour. (G 49) In the Siena copy, an annotator extends the final line with additional material (c5r) lucido & terso. > lucido & terso quale no(n) fece el cruore di Atij Phrygio Detail, ...

co cum gli sui orbiculetti più chiari, confusamente diseminati, lucido et terso. (c5r) Two freestanding Doric columns of porphyry, seven diameters high, stood on each of these two squares that I have described. They were bright and polished, and dark red, randomly dotted with circles of lighter colour. (G 49) In the Siena copy, an annotator extends the final line with additional material (c5r) lucido & terso. > lucido & terso quale no(n) fece el cruore di Atij Phrygio Detail, ...

rder to expand the text to its present dimensions. Presenting such an impressive printed display, it is easy to overlook the limitations which the physical mechanics of writing by hand imposed upon the creative process. The text would have first have been composed on manuscript sheets. In order to insert new material into an existing text, one had only to separate two loose leaves and interpolate a new text. Doing so, 8 E.g. ...

rder to expand the text to its present dimensions. Presenting such an impressive printed display, it is easy to overlook the limitations which the physical mechanics of writing by hand imposed upon the creative process. The text would have first have been composed on manuscript sheets. In order to insert new material into an existing text, one had only to separate two loose leaves and interpolate a new text. Doing so, 8 E.g. ...

its original wholeness. These notes do not have the character of glosses, since they extend the text rather than comment upon it. For example, in the original text of the following passage, the sentence ends with the phrase ‘lucido et terso’ followed by a full stop. Le due prompte Porphyrice columne Dorice di septe diametri, sopra qualunque di questi cusì explicati quadrati premevano di puniceo colore fusco cum gli sui orbiculetti più chiari, confusamente diseminati, lucido et terso. (...

its original wholeness. These notes do not have the character of glosses, since they extend the text rather than comment upon it. For example, in the original text of the following passage, the sentence ends with the phrase ‘lucido et terso’ followed by a full stop. Le due prompte Porphyrice columne Dorice di septe diametri, sopra qualunque di questi cusì explicati quadrati premevano di puniceo colore fusco cum gli sui orbiculetti più chiari, confusamente diseminati, lucido et terso. (...

pte diametri, sopra qualunque di questi cusì explicati quadrati premevano di puniceo colore fusco cum gli sui orbiculetti più chiari, confusamente diseminati, lucido et terso. (c5r) Two freestanding Doric columns of porphyry, seven diameters high, stood on each of these two squares that I have described. They were bright and polished, and dark red, randomly dotted with circles of lighter colour. (G 49) In the Siena copy, an annotator extends the final line with additional material ...

pte diametri, sopra qualunque di questi cusì explicati quadrati premevano di puniceo colore fusco cum gli sui orbiculetti più chiari, confusamente diseminati, lucido et terso. (c5r) Two freestanding Doric columns of porphyry, seven diameters high, stood on each of these two squares that I have described. They were bright and polished, and dark red, randomly dotted with circles of lighter colour. (G 49) In the Siena copy, an annotator extends the final line with additional material ...

co cum gli sui orbiculetti più chiari, confusamente diseminati, lucido et terso. (c5r) Two freestanding Doric columns of porphyry, seven diameters high, stood on each of these two squares that I have described. They were bright and polished, and dark red, randomly dotted with circles of lighter colour. (G 49) In the Siena copy, an annotator extends the final line with additional material (c5r) lucido & terso. > lucido & terso quale no(n) fece el cruore di Atij Phrygio Detail, ...

co cum gli sui orbiculetti più chiari, confusamente diseminati, lucido et terso. (c5r) Two freestanding Doric columns of porphyry, seven diameters high, stood on each of these two squares that I have described. They were bright and polished, and dark red, randomly dotted with circles of lighter colour. (G 49) In the Siena copy, an annotator extends the final line with additional material (c5r) lucido & terso. > lucido & terso quale no(n) fece el cruore di Atij Phrygio Detail, ...

rder to expand the text to its present dimensions. Presenting such an impressive printed display, it is easy to overlook the limitations which the physical mechanics of writing by hand imposed upon the creative process. The text would have first have been composed on manuscript sheets. In order to insert new material into an existing text, one had only to separate two loose leaves and interpolate a new text. Doing so, 8 E.g. ...

rder to expand the text to its present dimensions. Presenting such an impressive printed display, it is easy to overlook the limitations which the physical mechanics of writing by hand imposed upon the creative process. The text would have first have been composed on manuscript sheets. In order to insert new material into an existing text, one had only to separate two loose leaves and interpolate a new text. Doing so, 8 E.g. ...