"Guidonian hand" source

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"Guidonian hand" source

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Hello! Does anybody know the original source of this replica of "Guidonian hand"? Thanks a lot.
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Hi! Where does exactly this illustration come from? (what a treatise or dictionary?) Thank you!
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isseau wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2019 9:42 pmHi! Where does exactly this illustration come from? (what a treatise or dictionary?) Thank you!
I don’t know about that one, but others may be found here - https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca ... nian_hands or here - https://www.pinterest.com.au/larryselma ... nian-hand/

Incidentally, I noticed an interesting origin of the word ‘gamut’...

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