Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Marginalia, Scholarship & Reception

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Signature h4v

Folio 60r, Quire h

Folio h4v
Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38 HIGH Unverified
Folio h4v
Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38 HIGH Unverified

Vision Reading (Phase 3 deep analysis)

Primary hand: Multiple · Hands: 3 · Type: text_page · Sig: g8r

Transcription Attempts

left_margin_upper · Latin · LOW
[...] Grussilar [...] ORATIO [...] DICTIO [...] [...] futture [...]
'ORATIO' (speech/prayer), 'DICTIO' (diction/word). Reader is noting the rhetorical mode of the text
left_margin_center · Latin · LOW
mererealtis [...] erus [...] Aderrimo [...] praecept [...] nomina [...]
Dense Latin commentary. The printed text discusses inscriptions and monuments
bottom · Latin · LOW
[...] de [...] Maludia [...]
Bottom annotations barely legible

Scholarly Significance

Page 120 — adjacent to the obelisk page (p.119) that was deep-read in Tier 2. The annotations show attention to rhetorical categories ('ORATIO', 'DICTIO'), suggesting a reader analyzing Colonna's prose style. This rhetorical attention is distinct from both the architectural and alchemical reading programs and may represent a third interpretive tradition focused on elocutio.

Cross-references: Photo 132 (p.119, obelisk with inscriptions)
Vision reading (Claude Code, Phase 3)

Annotations

EMENDATION (1)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Emendation
“lascivia”
rrors be a step towards explaining the seemingly random nature of the line extensions, as random as a compositor’s carelessness. The re-insertion of material which had been proscribed is another possibility, though unlikely. There is no marginal content that appears in any way controversial or worthy of being hidden. The only possible exception is the insertion of the phrase ‘in tono lasio’, which may mean ‘lascivious’, into the phrase ‘Edyepea incomincio \in tono lasio/ a cantare’ on ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 221 (Ch. 8)
Hand Primary: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
Emendation
“lascivia”
rrors be a step towards explaining the seemingly random nature of the line extensions, as random as a compositor’s carelessness. The re-insertion of material which had been proscribed is another possibility, though unlikely. There is no marginal content that appears in any way controversial or worthy of being hidden. The only possible exception is the insertion of the phrase ‘in tono lasio’, which may mean ‘lascivious’, into the phrase ‘Edyepea incomincio \in tono lasio/ a cantare’ on ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 221 (Ch. 8)