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[Triumphus Fame Ia with Bracciolini’s commentary and annotations]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy

Shelfmark
It. X 42 (6241)
Date
fifteenth century (1477)
Mode of exegesis
Copyist
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphus Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

284 x 193; II + 72 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; humanistic script; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set on left in red ink, with commentary in black ink distributed across the page beneath either every single line or section of text; additional marginal annotations mostly in red ink (fols. 9v-10v: purple ink) next to the prose text of commentary.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Commune e opinione Magnificho Lorenço gli huomini antichi essere prudenti e savi

Internal Description

fols. 1r-2r: Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini’s dedicatory letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici (<inc> Commune e opinione Magnificho Lorenço gli huomini antichi essere prudenti e savi; <exp> sperando con prospera fortuna condurmi in porto havendo te per capitano et governatore);
 
fol. 2r: colophon: Finisce elproemio;
 
fols. 2r-69v: Triumphus Fame Ia with Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini’s commentary (‘Iacopo Di Messer poggio a Lorenzzo [sic] di piero di Cosimo de Medici. Sopra el Triompho. Della Fama Di Maestro Francesco Petrarcha’);
 
fol. 69v: colophon: Finis. Petrus de enciso hispanensis captiuus regis Tunetis scripsit hunc librum. ad laudem Christi fuit perfectus indie jovis xvi in dies januarij anno anativitate d[omi]ni M cccc lxx vii- Felice mente finisce;
 
fols. 70r-71v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy

Shelfmark
It. X 42 (6241)
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

In the margins are multiple annotations that include brief summaries, names of characters, speakers, and addressees, and discussion of rhetorical features.
 
Fol. 1r has a decorated architectural frame with coat of arms at the bottom of the page; decorated initials for dedicatory letter (fol. 2r) and Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini’s commentary (fol. 2v).
 
Fol. 71 has been torn out except for a few remaining fragments

Bibliography

Iter, II, 275a, II, 575a