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NYIthaca, Cornell University Library, Archives 4648 Bd. Ms. 24

Location

Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
United States

Shelfmark
Archives 4648 Bd. Ms. 24
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Occasional marginal annotations by at least two different contemporary/slightly later hands include: addition of missing words and lines; variant readings; and corrections of some words.
 
At fol. 1v is a title within a wreath with cupids on three sides (at the top, on right and left); historiated initials for Triumphus Amoris I showing Petrarch sitting and sleeping (fol. 2r) and RVF 1 showing Petrarch holding a book in his hand (fol. 41r); decorated initials in gold for the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; at fol. 2r is an architectural frame with four medallions (half-bust portraits of noble people) and, at the bottom of fol., the coat of arms of the Skanderbeg family; at fol. 41r. is another architectural frame with a medallion (with Laura’s portrait) and the coat of arms of the Skanderbeg family.