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[Triumphi with Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Magl. VII. 1102
Date
second half of the fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Copyist
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphi

Description

Physical Description: Format

212x142 mm; II + 144 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; humanistic script; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set on left, with commentary distributed across the page beneath either every single line or section of text; one architectural frame.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Encomincia ellibro chiamato trionpho damore fato et composto dallo excellentissimo poeta Messer Francescho petrarcha difirençe per amor innamorata Madonna Laura

Internal Description

fol. 1r: preface to Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary (<inc> Encomincia ellibro chiamato trionpho damore fato et composto dallo excellentissimo poeta Messer Francescho petrarcha difirençe per amor innamorata Madonna Laura; <exp> sottomettendosi al giogo damore et trasformandosi inquella cosa piu amo mentre visse);
 
fols. 1r-138v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia + Mortis I.120, Mortis II, Fame Ia) with Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary (<inc> Lo primo trionpho ouuero felicita fu in auere possessione ouero contentamento inamore di sua donna innamorata; <exp> de’ quali sopra edichiarato facti per virtu darme alti et gentili cioè costoro uiddio);
 
fol. 138v: notes of possession accompanied by a brief note by the copyist: ‘Georgii Antonii uespucii liber. Legasi, seco[n]do S[an]c[t]o Basilio, amodo dipecchie, ch[e] de fiori chauano q[uan]to basti, a fare elmele e lacera e no[n] altro, p[er] seguitare le virtu e iuitii fuggire. Liber Georgii Antonii Vespucii nu[n]c in S[ancti] Antonii t[†] nepotis et filios’;
 
fols. 139r-144v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Magl. VII. 1102
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

Fol. 1r has an architectural frame composed of floral decorations, with a coat of arms at the bottom.
 
This ms. belonged to Giorgio Antonio Vespucci, son of Amerigo Vespucci, who was a close friend of Lorenzo de’ Medici (CPR, pp. 84-86; Rizzardi 2004, XII).

Bibliography

CPR, 84-86; Iter, I, 124a
 
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De la Mare 1985a, I, 516; Rizzardi 2004, XII