Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Marginalia, Scholarship & Reception

Marginalia by Folio

Each card below represents a folio of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili where marginal annotations have been documented in James Russell's PhD thesis. Folios are identified by their signature—a bibliographic notation combining a quire letter, leaf number, and side (r for recto, v for verso). For example, b6v is the verso of the sixth leaf in quire b.

Folios tagged Alch. contain annotations by one of two identified alchemist readers: Hand B in the British Library copy (a follower of d'Espagnet's mercury-centered framework) or Hand E in the Buffalo copy (a follower of pseudo-Geber's sulphur and Sol/Luna emphasis).

132 annotated folios from 2 manuscript copies.

a1v
3 images, 6 refs
a1r Alch.
3 images, 24 refs
a2v
2 images, 6 refs
a2r
2 images, 6 refs
a3r Alch.
3 images, 6 refs
a3v
2 images, 4 refs
a4r
3 images, 22 refs
a4v
2 images, 4 refs
a5r
2 images, 8 refs
a6v
1 image, 8 refs
a6r Alch.
3 images, 10 refs
a7r
3 images, 10 refs
a7v
1 image, 4 refs
a8r
2 images, 6 refs
a8v
Vision reading only
A1v
2 images, 4 refs
A2r
2 images, 8 refs
A4v
2 images, 4 refs
A5r
2 images, 4 refs
b2v
Vision reading only
b5v
Vision reading only
b6r
Vision reading only
b1r
2 images, 16 refs
b2r
2 images, 14 refs
b3v
1 image, 2 refs
b3r
1 image, 4 refs
b4r
2 images, 4 refs
b4v
3 images, 14 refs
b5r Alch.
2 images, 12 refs
b6v Alch.
1 image, 4 refs
b7v
2 images, 20 refs
b7r Alch.
2 images, 10 refs
b8v
2 images, 8 refs
b8r
2 images, 4 refs
B1v
2 images, 4 refs
B7r
2 images, 8 refs
c4r
Vision reading only
c1v
2 images, 12 refs
c1r
2 images, 4 refs
c2v
2 images, 8 refs
c4v
2 images, 8 refs
c5r
2 images, 16 refs
c6v Alch.
2 images, 10 refs
c7r
3 images, 6 refs
C2v
2 images, 8 refs
C5r
2 images, 12 refs
C5v
2 images, 4 refs
d6r
Vision reading only
d1v
2 images, 4 refs
d3r
2 images, 20 refs
d4r
3 images, 6 refs
d5v
2 images, 4 refs
d5r
2 images, 8 refs
d6v
1 image, 2 refs
d7v
3 images, 6 refs
d7r
2 images, 12 refs
d8v Alch.
3 images, 8 refs
D5r
2 images, 4 refs
D5v
2 images, 4 refs
e2v
Vision reading only
e3r
Vision reading only
e1v
1 image, 2 refs
e1r Alch.
3 images, 14 refs
e3v
1 image, 2 refs
e4v
2 images, 8 refs
e7r
1 image, 2 refs
e7v
2 images, 8 refs
E7v
2 images, 4 refs
E8v Alch.
2 images, 8 refs
f4v
Vision reading only
f6v
Vision reading only
f2v
2 images, 8 refs
F3r
2 images, 12 refs
g2r
2 images, 4 refs
g3r
2 images, 4 refs
g4r
2 images, 4 refs
g8r
2 images, 14 refs
g8v
2 images, 8 refs
h4r
Vision reading only
h5v
Vision reading only
h6r
Vision reading only
h7v
Vision reading only
h8r
Vision reading only
h1r Alch.
2 images, 14 refs
h2r
2 images, 2 refs
h4v
2 images, 2 refs
h5r
2 images, 8 refs
h6v
2 images, 2 refs
h7r
2 images, 6 refs
i3r
2 images, 2 refs
i4r
2 images, 2 refs
i4v
2 images, 2 refs
i6r
2 images, 4 refs
i7v
2 images, 8 refs
k4r
Vision reading only
k7v
Vision reading only
k1v
2 images, 4 refs
k2v
2 images, 2 refs
k3v
1 image, 1 ref
k3r
1 image, 2 refs
k5r
1 image, 2 refs
l1v
Vision reading only
l2v
Vision reading only
l3v
2 images, 2 refs
l4v
2 images, 6 refs
l7r
2 images, 4 refs
l8v
1 image, 1 ref
m1v
2 images, 5 refs
m6r
2 images, 4 refs
n1r
2 images, 2 refs
n3r
2 images, 2 refs
n4r
2 images, 4 refs
n8v
2 images, 4 refs
o2r
2 images, 2 refs
p1r
2 images, 2 refs
p2r
2 images, 2 refs
p5v
1 image, 1 ref
p6v
2 images, 4 refs
p8r
2 images, 2 refs
q2v
2 images, 2 refs
r4r
2 images, 3 refs
r6r
2 images, 2 refs
s2r
2 images, 4 refs
s4r
2 images, 6 refs
s6v
2 images, 2 refs
t6r
2 images, 2 refs
x3v
1 image, 3 refs
x4v
2 images, 2 refs
x8v
2 images, 2 refs
y4v
2 images, 2 refs
z1r
2 images, 4 refs
z4r
2 images, 8 refs