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

Overview

Current Location

Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France

Shelfmark
italien 2126
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphus Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

253x170 mm; 114 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; first part of the capitolo (in red ink) followed by commentary (in black ink) and then small sections of Petrarch’s poem set on left with commentary distributed across the page beneath each of them, and annotations irregularly distributed on the sides (in red ink); one architectural frame and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> IACOPO DI MESSER POGGIO | A LORENZO DI PIERO DI | COSIMO DE MEDICI SOPRA EL | Triumpho della fama di Messer Francesco pe | trarcha. P R O H E M I O

Internal Description

fols. 1r-3r: Bracciolini’s dedicatory letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici (‘Iacopo di Messer Poggio a Lorenzo di Piero di Cosimo de Medici sopra el Triumpho della fama di Messer Francesco petrarcha. Prohemio’, <inc> Comune e opinione Magnifico Lorenço gli huomini antichi essere prudenti & saui per la lungha experientia delle cose uedute da loro; <exp> mi mettero a nauighare in alto mare sperando con prospera fortuna co[n]durmi in porto hauendo te per capitano & ghouernatore);
 
fol. 3r: colophon: Finisce el proemio;
 
fol. 3v: Triumphus Fame Ia.1-24;
 
fol. 4r: blank;
 
fols. 4v-114v: Triumphus Fame Ia.25-163 with annotations and Bracciolini’s commentary (‘Iacopo di messer Poggio a Lorenzo di Pietro di Cosimo de Medici sopra el Triompho della fama di M[esser] F[rancesco] Petrarcha’, <inc of commentary> El popolo romano superiore per le sua singulari & immense uirtu a tutti glingegni degli scriptori conoscendo niuna cosa esser piu accepta & grata agli huomini che la uictoria; <exp of commentary> consumata la uita sua Carlo in aquisgrana citta appresso al Rheno mori in eta danni LXXII neglianni di christo DCCCoXV & del suo imperio XLVII con grandissima gloria & beniuolentia in audita desuoi popoli);
 
fol. 114v: colophon: Iacopo di Messer Poggio a Lorenzo di Pietro di cosimo de Medici sopra el Triumpho della fama di M[esser] F[rancesco] Petrarcha felicemente finisce.

Material Copy

Location

Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France

Shelfmark
italien 2126
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Marginal annotations by the same hand include: brief summaries, names of characters, speakers, and addressees, and rhetorical elements. Some further marginal annotations by a different hand provide historical and contextual information about some characters mentioned in the capitolo; some passages of the commentary are underlined in black ink.
 
Decorated initials in gold for Bracciolini’s dedicatory letter (fol. 1r) and the beginning of Bracciolini’s commentary (fol. 4v); at fol. 1 is an architectural frame.

Bibliography

Iter, III, 308a; Pellegrin 1966, 182-83 (= II, 360-61)
 
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Simone 1961, 188