Overview
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France
Triumphi + Triumphus Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
205x130 mm; 48 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 incite feliciter capitulus primus
fols. 1r-47r: Triumphi (‘Francissi [sic] Petrarce triumphus amoris incite 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: Laus deo pax uiuis defunctis. Deo gratias amen;
fol. 47r: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch by the same hand (<inc> Frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
fols. 47v-48v: blank.
Material Copy
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France
Historiated initial for Triumphus Amoris I showing Petrarch holding a book (fol. 1r); decorated initials for the beginning of all the other Triumphi and each subsequent capitolo; at fol. 1r is an architectural frame.
Pellegrin 1966, 165-66 (= II, 343-44)