Dickinson College  /  Writing on Hands

This exhibition catalogue presents different ways hands were used as subjects for learning between the fifteenth and late seventeenth century.

  • Front cover shows an illustration of a hand from the hand-colored woodcut from 1466, The Hand as the Mirror of Salvation.
  • Section opener with a detail of The Hand as a Cognitive Map, a woodcut of the palm and the significance of the lines seen.
  • Catalogue entry for the Hands as Bodily Mnemonics, the first of 96 woodcuts that meditate on Christ’s suffering.
  • Catalogue entry for The Hand as a Cognitive Map, a woodcut illustration of the palm and the significance of the lines seen.
  • Section opener has a detail from The Front View of the Outermost Layers of Muscles, an engraving/etching by Jan Wandelaar.
  • Catalogue entry of Two Views of the Bones of the Hand and Four Details of the Bones of the Wrists, a woodcut from Jan Stephen van Calcar.