Overview
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
Triumphus Fame Ia
Description
264x196 mm; I + 117 fols.
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 (in red ink) with commentary (in black ink) distributed across the page beneath each of them; one architectural frame, historated and decorated initials.
<inc> Commune e opinione magnifico Lorenzo glihuomini antichi essere prudenti & sauii p[er]la lungha experientia delle cose uedute dalloro
fols. 1r-3r: Bracciolini’s dedicatory letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici (‘Iacopo di Mes[ser] Poggo Sopra il Trihonp\f\o della fama di m[e]s[ser] F[rancesco] P[etrarca] allorenzo di P\i\ero d\e\ med\i\ci’, <inc> Commune e opinione magnifico Lorenzo glihuomini antichi essere prudenti & sauii p[er]la lungha experientia delle cose uedute dalloro; <exp> mi mettero anauicare inalto mare sperando con prospera fortuna condurmi in porto hauendo te per capitano & gouernatore);
fol. 3r-3v: Triumphus Fame Ia.1-24;
fols. 3v-114v: Triumphus Fame Ia.25-163 with Bracciolini’s commentary (<inc> Elpopolo romano svperiore perlesua [sic] singulari & inmense uirtu a tutti glingegni degliscriptori conoscendo niuna cosa esser piu accepta & grata agli huomini che la uictoria; <exp> consumata lauita sua mori Carlo in aquisgrana citta presso al rheno ineta danni septanta due neglianni di Christo ottocento quindici & del suo imperio quaranta septe Congrandissima gloria & beniuolentia in audita de suoi populi). On the margins of the commentary, there are several captions in red (by the same hand that wrote the main text) that include brief summaries and names of characters;
fol. 114v: colophon: H[i]es[us].
Material Copy
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
Historiated initial for Bracciolini’s dedicatory letter showing a half-bust portrait of a man holding an open book in his hands (fol. 1r); initial in gold for Bracciolini’s commentary (fol. 3v); on the left margin of fol. 3v is a floral decoration; at fol. 1r is an architectural frame (with Roman decorative elements, garlands, and eight medallions [within the three on the left side, there are three portraits; within the three on the right and the one on the central upper part of the frame, Roman mythological and historical scenes; within the one on the central bottom part of the frame, an eagle that grasps a coat of arms with her talons]); in the upper part of the fol., within the frame, is a register with lettering in gold (‘Iacopo di Mes[ser] Poggo Sopra il Trihonp\f\o della fama di m[e]s[ser] F[rancesco] P[etrarca] allorenzo di P\i\ero d\e\ med\i\ci’).
Iter, I, 85b and II, 505b
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Bausi 1989, 64-121; Bausi 1992; De La Mare 1985a, I, 458; Garzelli 1996; Gennaioli 2010, 97; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 163-219; Labriola 2008b; Labriola 2014; Lazzi 2010a; Lazzi 2010b; Manetti-Rao 1992