Overview
Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
145x106 mm; I + 59 + I fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line, with annotations irregularly distributed on the sides; one architectural frame, historiated and decorated initials.
<inc> Francisci Petrarce poetae clarissimi florentini triumphi incipiunt
fols. 1r-59v: Triumphi with annotations (‘Francisci Petrarce poetae clarissimi florentini triumphi incipiunt’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia+Mortis I.33-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 59v: colophon: Finis.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
Marginal annotations by the same hand either refer to names of characters mentioned in the capitoli, or give short historical explanations of other characters’ deeds (sometimes in Italian and sometimes in Latin), or add some missing lines (e.g., fol. 10v), or else provide parallel passages in Latin from classical authors (e.g., Virgil [fol. 10v], Ovid [fol. 19v], and Tibullus [fol. 59r]); some maniculae and passages highlighted by vertical strokes close to the end of the lines.
Historiated initial for Triumphus Amoris I showing a half-bust profile portrait of Petrarch (fol. 1r); decorated initials in gold for every other capitolo of the Triumphi; at fol. 1r is an architectural frame and a coat of arms (erased).
Boselli 1935, 255-56; CPR, 298