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[Triumphi with index]

Overview

Current Location

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Munich
Germany

Shelfmark
Cod. Ital. 264
Creator
Date
fifteenth / sixteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphi + Fame Ia,

Description

Physical Description: Format

193x130 mm; 45 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment (except fol. 1: paper); humanistic script for the text and sixteenth-century hand for index and few annotations; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame; decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> NEltempo cherinoua imiei sospiri

Internal Description

fol. 1r-1v: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance penned by a late-sixteenth-century hand (‘I Trionfi di M[esser] Francesco Petrarca’);
 
fols. 2r-45v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis 1-111, Eternitatis 13-145);
 
fol. 45v: colophon: FINIS. Qquelle [sic] si belle e si fec [word interrupted and followed by a scribble] | qui non si graue ponobis [sic] | quell p[er]que [scribble]; final pastedown: description of the contents of the ms. by a librarian on a fol. attached to the internal part of the cover.

Material Copy

Location

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Munich
Germany

Shelfmark
Cod. Ital. 264
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

Fol. 1r-1v: the index of first lines is provided with some references to the different order of capitoli and variant readings in two sixteenth-century print editions of the Triumphi: Il Petrarcha con l’espositione d’Alessandro Vellutello (Venice: de Vidali, 1528, and Venice: Giolito, 1552). Fols. 2r and 28v: marginal annotations by the same hand who transcribed the index with references to variant readings of Triumphus Amoris I.4 and to the lack of Triumphus Fame Ia in the aforementioned printed editions.
 
The loss of a fol. between fols. 42 and 43 is the reason for the missing lines in Triumphi Temporis and Eternitatis.
 
Fol. 2r has an architectural frame with floral decorations, an initial in gold for Triumphus Amoris I.1, and a blue coat of arms encircled in gold.

Bibliography

Sottili 1971, I, 195-96; Thomas-Schmeller 1858, 96-97