Guidonian hand

Unknown

Item type:

manuscript, codex, scroll

Technique / Medium:

pen and ink

Description

The so-called 'Guidonian hand' may have been adopted by Guido d'Arezzo as an aid to training singers in solmization. Although the hand occurs in pre-Guidonian manuscripts as a method of finding the semitones of tetrachords, it does not take its well-known form showing the solmization syllables until the 12th century.

People as subjects

Guido d’Arezzo (ca. 990-ca. 1050)

RIdIM images

RIdIM record id

3844