Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

could just as well be a natural-historical remark as an architectural one. On the image of the elephant and obelisk, the annotator writes ‘obsidie’ next to the phrase ‘Elephante di nigricãte petri, piu che obsidio’. By (c7r), the annotator, having skipped over other sub-sections, has returned to his interest in simples and herbalism. The annotation ‘herbe murali’ follows the phrase ‘aedificio antiquario inseme cum molti altri arbusculi murali’. Other remarks on herbs follow on (d6v), (d...

197 Hypasis and Ganges to the Indians, or the Tigris and Euphrates to the Armenians; more blessed than the Nile to the people of Ethiopia... (G 17) Another example is offered in order to demonstrate the consistency of this recurring pattern. Chigi applies the term ‘descrittione’ to another stream, to which he appends the composite interpretation. On (d7v), he mentions a ‘descrittione di uena summum bonum di Poliphilo’, another stream which follows a similar expanding pattern from bo...

197 Hypasis and Ganges to the Indians, or the Tigris and Euphrates to the Armenians; more blessed than the Nile to the people of Ethiopia... (G 17) Another example is offered in order to demonstrate the consistency of this recurring pattern. Chigi applies the term ‘descrittione’ to another stream, to which he appends the composite interpretation. On (d7v), he mentions a ‘descrittione di uena summum bonum di Poliphilo’, another stream which follows a similar expanding pattern from bo...

could just as well be a natural-historical remark as an architectural one. On the image of the elephant and obelisk, the annotator writes ‘obsidie’ next to the phrase ‘Elephante di nigricãte petri, piu che obsidio’. By (c7r), the annotator, having skipped over other sub-sections, has returned to his interest in simples and herbalism. The annotation ‘herbe murali’ follows the phrase ‘aedificio antiquario inseme cum molti altri arbusculi murali’. Other remarks on herbs follow on (d6v), (d...

197 Hypasis and Ganges to the Indians, or the Tigris and Euphrates to the Armenians; more blessed than the Nile to the people of Ethiopia... (G 17) Another example is offered in order to demonstrate the consistency of this recurring pattern. Chigi applies the term ‘descrittione’ to another stream, to which he appends the composite interpretation. On (d7v), he mentions a ‘descrittione di uena summum bonum di Poliphilo’, another stream which follows a similar expanding pattern from bo...

197 Hypasis and Ganges to the Indians, or the Tigris and Euphrates to the Armenians; more blessed than the Nile to the people of Ethiopia... (G 17) Another example is offered in order to demonstrate the consistency of this recurring pattern. Chigi applies the term ‘descrittione’ to another stream, to which he appends the composite interpretation. On (d7v), he mentions a ‘descrittione di uena summum bonum di Poliphilo’, another stream which follows a similar expanding pattern from bo...