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[Triumphi]

Overview

Current Location

Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
United States

Shelfmark
Archives 4648 Bd. Ms. 34
Creator
Date
mid-fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphi + Fame Ia and Mortis Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

181x131 mm; I + 52 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> La nocte che segui lorribil caso

Internal Description

fols. 1r-52r: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 52r: colophon: Qui finiscono etriumphi dimessere francesco petrarca eximio poeta fiorentino;
 
fol. 52r: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (‘Questi sono juersi della sepultura dello elcsimio [sic] poeta mess[er] franciesco petrarcha’, <inc> Frigida Francisci lapis hic tegit ossa Petrarche); followed by a note (‘Mori a di 17 marzo 1374. Sotterrato eldetto nel castel darqua i[n] lonbardia’);
 
fol. 52v: Triumphus Mortis Ia (‘Proemio apartenente atriumphy’).

Material Copy

Location

Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
United States

Shelfmark
Archives 4648 Bd. Ms. 34
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Notes

Decorated initial for Triumphus Mortis II (fol. 1r).

Bibliography

Dutschke 1986, 132-34 (n° 47); Ullman 1964, 453 (n° 34)