Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

rapion the Younger’s (ibn Sarabi) Liber de simplicibus medicamentis, which was printed in Venice in 1497.98 The fact that ‘Bauruch’, the etymon of the English ‘Borax’ بورق (bwrw) is absent from Isidore’s Etymologies, suggests that one of the Giovio brothers had also access to an Arabic lexical source.99 The above citation references Pliny directly with chapter and verse. In other cases, a citation from Pliny arrives through a secondary medium, in this case, the Hortus sanitatis. 26. ...

rapion the Younger’s (ibn Sarabi) Liber de simplicibus medicamentis, which was printed in Venice in 1497.98 The fact that ‘Bauruch’, the etymon of the English ‘Borax’ بورق (bwrw) is absent from Isidore’s Etymologies, suggests that one of the Giovio brothers had also access to an Arabic lexical source.99 The above citation references Pliny directly with chapter and verse. In other cases, a citation from Pliny arrives through a secondary medium, in this case, the Hortus sanitatis. 26. ...

ng of a single pen point, is located next to this reference, which from the quality of the ink and stroke appears to derive from an earlier reading than that of the Plinian citation. In this and other cases, it appears that the reader remarked on the problem, but postponed the looking-up of a solution to a later date. In another case, the annotator recognized when the HP makes use of a reference from the Naturalis historia in a figurative sense. An image of a hexireme ship is found on ...

ng of a single pen point, is located next to this reference, which from the quality of the ink and stroke appears to derive from an earlier reading than that of the Plinian citation. In this and other cases, it appears that the reader remarked on the problem, but postponed the looking-up of a solution to a later date. In another case, the annotator recognized when the HP makes use of a reference from the Naturalis historia in a figurative sense. An image of a hexireme ship is found on ...

ces had not become pernicious and deadly blows, just as flashing thunder causes hearty oak-trees to split beneath its sudden blow. (Ibid.) Chigi took note of the fact that the author would locate clusters acutezze in a single section of text, labelling such gatherings as ‘varie comparatione’ (k1v) and ‘comparatione diverse’ (p2r), without marking each individual comparison. He would also note the common referent of a variety of comparisons, clustered for escalating rhetorical effect. On ...

ces had not become pernicious and deadly blows, just as flashing thunder causes hearty oak-trees to split beneath its sudden blow. (Ibid.) Chigi took note of the fact that the author would locate clusters acutezze in a single section of text, labelling such gatherings as ‘varie comparatione’ (k1v) and ‘comparatione diverse’ (p2r), without marking each individual comparison. He would also note the common referent of a variety of comparisons, clustered for escalating rhetorical effect. On ...