Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy
Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
172x115 mm; I + 60 + I fols.
parchment; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
Triomphi dello eloquentissimo poeta messer Francesco petrarcha cittadino florentino. Triompho pimo [sic] dello amore
fol. 1r: title (‘Triomphi dello eloquentissimo poeta messer Francesco petrarcha cittadino florentino. Triompho pimo [sic] dello amore’);
fols. 1r-52v: Triumphi (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. 52v: colophon: finis;
fols. 53r-60v: Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘Vita dimesser Francesco petrarca secondo lopinione dimes[ser] liona[r]do darezo et dallui facta’, <inc> Franciesco petrarcha huomo di grande ingegnio et no[n] diminor uirtu; <exp> Essere ilpetrarcha insignito di corona poeticha et no[n] dante niente inporta aquesta operatione p[er]o ch[e] molto e dastimare ilmeritar corona ch[e] auerla ricieuuta. Maxime p[er]ch[e] la uirtu e cierta: et lacorona taluolta per lieue giudicio cosi ad chi no[n] merita come achi merita dare sipuote);
fol. 60v: colophon: finis.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy
Occasional marginal annotations mainly give variant readings of either a word or a line; a few maniculae.
Decorated initials for the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo, and Bruni’s life; at fol. 1r is an architectural frame with a coat of arms at the bottom of the fol.
CPR, 361; CPVe, 28; Iter, II, 272a