Overview
Wellesley College Library
Wellesley, MA
United States
Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
208x137 mm; I + 47 + I fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame, historiated and decorated initials.
<inc> Francissi [sic] Petrarce triumphus amoris incipit feliciter capitulus primus
fols. 1r-47r: Triumphi (‘Francissi [sic] Petrarce triumphus amoris incipit feliciter capitulus primus’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 47r: colophon: Deo gratias amen. Laus deo pax uiuis defunctis;
fol. 47r: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch by the same hand (<inc> Frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
fols. 47v: scattered words by different later hands.
Material Copy
Wellesley College Library
Wellesley, MA
United States
Decorated initials in gold for the beginning of all the Triumphi and each subsequent capitolo; at fol. 1r is an architectural frame.
Dutschke 1986, 281-83 (n. 125); Ullman 1964, 466 (n. 91)