Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Marginalia, Scholarship & Reception

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Folio 160r, Quire x

Folio x8v
Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38 HIGH Unverified
Folio x8v
Biblioteca degli Intronati, Siena — O.III.38 HIGH Unverified

Annotations

MARGINAL_NOTE (1)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Marginal Note
“in alcuni esemplari manca questo foglio”
d in the leaves growing out of their heads, accentuating their transformation. Likewise on (t6r), the annotator added light brown hatching to the trees in order to offer a sense of texture to the bark. The fact that the annotator decided to improve the details of trees, and only trees, would seem to accord with Benedetto’s known botanical interests. One of the annotators also appears to have had an on-again, off-again relationship with the act of censorship itself. The herm depicted on ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 115 (Ch. 5)
Hand Primary: Benedetto Giovio
Marginal Note
“in alcuni esemplari manca questo foglio”
d in the leaves growing out of their heads, accentuating their transformation. Likewise on (t6r), the annotator added light brown hatching to the trees in order to offer a sense of texture to the bark. The fact that the annotator decided to improve the details of trees, and only trees, would seem to accord with Benedetto’s known botanical interests. One of the annotators also appears to have had an on-again, off-again relationship with the act of censorship itself. The herm depicted on ...
Russell, PhD Thesis, p. 115 (Ch. 5)