Overview
Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
178x109 mm; I + 48 + I fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
<inc> Francisci Petrarce poete clarissimi de \a\morte [sic] triumphus primus incipit feliciter. Amor vincit mundum
fols. 1r-48r: Triumphi (‘Francisci Petrarce poetae clarissimi florentini triumphi incipiunt’, 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. 59v: colophon: Francisci Petrarce poete clarissimi triumphus sextus et ultimus explicit;
fol. 48r: a short summary of the Triumphi in Latin (‘Amor mundum. Pudicitia amorem. Mors pudicitiam. Fama mortem. Tempus famam. Eternitas omnia Vincit’), below which are two small drawings of human heads;
fol. 48v: small drawings of seven human heads and a human figure.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
Occasional marginal annotations by two later hands either add some missing words or lines (e.g., fol. 29v), or give information unrelated to Petrarch (e.g., fol. 27v); a few maniculae.
Decorated initials in gold for every capitolo of the Triumphi (except Triumphus Fame II); at fol. 1r is an architectural frame and at its bottom is a coat of arms of the Gonzaga family surrounded by two flying cupids.
Boselli 1935, 257-58; CPR, 299