Overview
Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
Triumphi + Fame Ia and Mortis Ia
Description
198x140 mm; VII + 71 + VI fols.
paper; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one full-page drawing.
<inc> Comincia illibro detto piatosa fonte sopr\a\ lamorte del mangnifico [sic] poe[t]a mess[er] franc[esc]o pet[rarc]a
fols. 1r-33v: [Zenone da Pistoia’s] Pietosa fonte (‘Comincia illibro detto Piatosa [sic] fonte sopr\a\ lamorte del mangnifico [sic] poe[t]a mess[er] franc[esc]o pet[rarc]a’, <inc> Nouo principio rendi anticho fine; <exp> Sicche lalimghua [sic] coltaciere isbarro [sic]);
fol. 33v: colophon: Explicit liber pietoxa [sic] fontis de morte domini francisci petrarce Docte laureati deo gratias amen amen amen;
fol. 33v: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (<inc> Frigida francisci lapis hic tegiti [sic] ossa petrarcie);
fol. 34r-34v: prose work on Ovidian mythology (<inc> Lachumchubina dello amante didonte giamme mostraua le stelle nelsengno [sic] dellingannata europa quando lapassione dellamisera bibilis mirendeo limmagi[n]e; <exp> non temo lefigliuole diforcho maongni [sic] pena Ingloria sara riuolta oue ch[e]lleffetto seghuita lapromessa fede. Ammen [sic]);
fols. 35r-71v: Triumphi (‘Quicomincianno Itriomfi delmangnificho ellustrio [sic] poeta mess[er] francescho petrarcha daffirenze’, order: Mortis Ia, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, and Eternitatis);
fol. 71v: colophon: Explicit liberailus [sic] ven. d[omi]ne thomasie re[†].
Material Copy
Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
At fols. 61r-71v, scattered marginal and interlinear annotations by the same hand either correct the poems, or give variant readings.
At fol. 15v is a full-page black-ink drawing of a nobleman with a hound and a falcon. Before and after the drawing, the capitolo ‘Io non posso pur farche dio non torni’ of Zenone’s Pietosa fonte continues with no interruption from fol. 15r to fol. 16r.
Boselli 1935, 253-54; CPR, 302