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The illustration on folio 6r of the late-thirteenth-century copy of Elias Salomonis's Scientia artis musicae shows the most celebrated medieval representation of the Guidonian Hand, the hand of Guido of Arezzo, author of the first textbook on musical theory. The hand dominates the image and appears grotesquely enlarged in relation to the master's innocently smiling face. The syllables are organized and inscribed so densely along the fingers that it appears as if the giant hand is wearing a kind of musical glove.
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