[Triumphi with Bruni’s life of Petrarch]

114x76 mm; II + 81 + VI fols.

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; seven full-page illuminations, seven architectural frames, historiated and decorated initials.

<inc> Francesco Petrarcha huomo di grande ingegno & non di minor uirtu

fols. 1r: blank;
 
fol. 1v: full-page illumination with Petrarch writing in his studio within an illuminated architectural frame; in the lower part of the fol., within the frame, is a register with three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch in gold (<inc> Frigida Franc[isc]i lapis hic tegit o[s]sa Pet[rar]ce);
 
fols. 2r-11v: [Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Francesco Petrarcha huomo di grande ingegno & non di minor uirtu; <exp> Maxime p[er]ch[e] la uirtu e certa et la corona tal uolta p[er] lieue giudicio cosi a chi non merita come a chi merita dar si puote);
 
fol. 11v: colophon: Finis;
 
fol. 12r: blank;
 
fol. 12v: full-page illumination of Triumphus Amoris within a richly decorated architectural frame with further small rectangular-box illuminations;
 
fol. 13r: title in gold within a decorated circle (‘Incipiunt triumphi Francisci Petrarce P[oetae] F[lorentini]’);
 
fols. 13r-81r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis); each triumph is preceded by a full-page illumination within an architectural frame with further small rectangular-box illuminations: Triumphus Amoris (12v), Pudicitie (fol. 34v), Mortis I (fol. 41v), Fame I (fol. 57v), Temporis (fol. 70v), and Eternitatis (fol. 76v);
 
fol. 81r: colophon: Finis;
 
fol. 81v: blank.