Overview
Biblioteca Capitular
Toledo
Spain
Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
344x232 mm; II + 400 + II fols.
parchment; humanistic script; small sections of Petrarch’s poems set on left (in red ink), with commentary distributed across the page beneath each of them (in black ink); twelve architectural frames and decorated initials.
<inc> Ad Illu[stri]ssimum Mutine Duce[m] diuu[m] borsiu[m] exte[n]sem Bernardi ilicini Sene[n]n[sis] [sic] medici ac phylosophy i[n] triu[m]phos cla[rissimi] poete F[rancisci] petra[r]ce expositio incipit
fol. 1r-1v: Ilicino’s dedicatory letter to Borso d’Este (‘Ad Illu[stri]ssimum Mutine Duce[m] diuu[m] borsiu[m] exte[n]sem Bernardi ilicini Sene[n]n[sis] [sic] medici ac phylosophy i[n] triu[m]phos cla[rissimi] poete F[rancisci] petra[r]ce expositio incipit’, <inc> Publio Cornelio Scipione Nissuna magior uictoria o piu singulare triumpho diffini che se medesimo uincere in quelle cose lequali dallo apetito sensitiuo erano desiderate; <exp> trouera pure almeno una sincera fide dime suo seruo co[n]uno arde[n]tissi[m]o desiderio diq[ue]lla se[m]pre uedere et intendere felice nelnostro seculo et beata in futuro);
fols. 2r-399v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia.1-21+Mortis I.4-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-22+first half of Fame Ia.23+second half of Fame I.23+Fame I.24-130, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis) with Ilicino’s commentary (<inc> Vniuersal sententia e dalli antiqui et optimi expositori aprobata douersi nelli principii delibri piu cose dilige[n]temente considerare; <exp> Ladonde illustrissimo prencipe questo si puo ciascuno persuadere che queste mie uigilie leggera che nissuna altra cosa aquelle componere mi indusse che demostrare amore inuerso del poeta Tollere fatiga amolti che dilui sidilectano et atua Illustrissima Signoria Demostrare fede seruitu et deditione Laquale io desidero et prego che sia felice secondo lauolonta tua et dichi piu te ama desidera et adopera mantenerti in gloria Per infinita secula seculorum. Amen);
fol. 399v: colophon: Finis Laus deo Marieq[ue] matrj;
fol. 400r-400v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Capitular
Toledo
Spain
Occasional marginal annotations by both the same and a similar hand either correct some spelling mistakes of passages of commentary, or add a few missing lines to the poems.
Decorated initials in gold for Ilicino’s dedicatory letter (fol. 1r) and the beginning of commentary to each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo (fols. 2r, 35v, 70r, 91v, 109v, 145r, 169r, 188v, 239v, 296r, 342r, and 368v). At fols. 1r, 35v, 70r, 91, 109v, 145r, 169r, 188v, 239v, 296r, 342r, and 368v is an architectural frame.
Cat.Toledo 1903-1906, I, 147-48; Villar 1995