Kupferstichkabinett library
Berlin
Germany
Next to the prose text of the commentary are some occasional annotations in red ink, by the same hand who transcribed the main text, copying the names of authors quoted by Filelfo or those of the mythological and historical figures mentioned in Petrarch’s text.
Fol. 1r has a rich architectural frame with cupids, small medallion portraits in the left, top, and right border, and a coat of arms of the Aragonese family at the bottom of the fol.; below the title is a historiated initial representing a woman (likely Laura) pierced by an arrow giving her hand to a small white animal (likely a dog). Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 89r), Triumphus Pudicitie (fol. 110r), Triumphus Mortis I (fol. 116r), Triumphus Fame I (fol. 132r), Triumphus Temporis (fol. 204r), and Triumphus Eternitatis (fol. 211v) have a rich architectural frame with cupids, small medallion portraits, animals (small devils for Triumphus Eternitatis), and a rectangular-box illumination. Triumphus Amoris II at fol. 170r has a rectangular-box illumination representing Scipio Africanus and Sophonisba and a medallion illumination representing a man lying down and dressed in blue. Fols. 181v, 129r, 197v, 210v have historiated initials. Several initials in gold throughout the ms. The decorative apparatus is due to the Neapolitan illuminator Cola Rubicano (Wescher 1931, 84).