Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

ich he identified as ‘ξεστός , a verbal adjective derived from ‘ξεω’, ‘to polish’ and the suffix of work or craft –‘-ουργία’.52 The transcription above, in which the gamma in ‘ξεsτυρΓια’ remains in majuscule, is reported as found. A telltale characteristic of Benedetto’s hand is that he, while showing an awareness of both cases of the Greek alphabet, he consistently wrote certain letters (Γ in this case) in majuscule. Benedetto applies a similar method to the word ‘navarchia’ found on ...

ich he identified as ‘ξεστός , a verbal adjective derived from ‘ξεω’, ‘to polish’ and the suffix of work or craft –‘-ουργία’.52 The transcription above, in which the gamma in ‘ξεsτυρΓια’ remains in majuscule, is reported as found. A telltale characteristic of Benedetto’s hand is that he, while showing an awareness of both cases of the Greek alphabet, he consistently wrote certain letters (Γ in this case) in majuscule. Benedetto applies a similar method to the word ‘navarchia’ found on ...

83 2. s2r: ‘navarchía ναυαρχία il governo della nave, et ναυαρχόσ il governatore et padrone’; ‘Amplustre, et amplustria sono gl'instrumenti navali’; Protoploi, primi naviganti πρωτό-πλοοσ, πρωτο, πλεω navigo’ Navarchía [from] nauarchia, or the steering of a ship, and nauarchos the governor and master (i.e. the captain’). Amplustre, and Amplustria are naval instruments. ‘Protoploi’, the ‘first sailors’, proto- ploos, proto-pleo. Here Giovio exhibits one of his other orthographic...

83 2. s2r: ‘navarchía ναυαρχία il governo della nave, et ναυαρχόσ il governatore et padrone’; ‘Amplustre, et amplustria sono gl'instrumenti navali’; Protoploi, primi naviganti πρωτό-πλοοσ, πρωτο, πλεω navigo’ Navarchía [from] nauarchia, or the steering of a ship, and nauarchos the governor and master (i.e. the captain’). Amplustre, and Amplustria are naval instruments. ‘Protoploi’, the ‘first sailors’, proto- ploos, proto-pleo. Here Giovio exhibits one of his other orthographic...