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[Triumphus Fame Ia with Bracciolini’s commentary]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Pal. 751
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphus Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

173x144 mm, I + 73 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; gothic cursive hand; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set on left in red ink, with commentary distributed across the page beneath it in black ink.

Title Page

‘Triumphi miss[er]i laurentio de medicis prim[um] triu[m]phum fame domini francisci proemium incipit’

Internal Description

fols. 1r-2v: Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini’s dedicatory letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici (‘Triumphi miss[er]i laurentio de medicis prim[um] triu[m]phum fame domini francisci proemium incipit’; <inc> Comune e opinione M[agnific]o Lorenzo gli huomini antichi essere prudenti et saui p[er]la lungha esperientia delle cose uedute da loro; <exp> mimetteuo a nauigare p[er] alto mare sperando con prospera fortuna condurmi i[n]porto auendo te p[er] guardiano et gouernatore);
 
fols. 2v-73r: Triumphus Fame Ia.25-163 with Poggio’s commentary (<inc> E’ lp[o]p[o]lo romano sup[e]riore p[er]le sue singulari et immense uirtu atutti glingegni degli scriptori conoscendo niuna cosa essere piu grata agliuomini ch[e] lauittoria; <exp> fino atempi nostri Carlo in aquisgrana citta presso alreno mori ineta danni LXXII neglanni di Xr[ist]o 8xv et d[i]suo imp[e]ro 47 congrandissima gloria et beniuolentia desuoi p[o]p[o]li);
 
fol. 73r: colophon: finis Laus Deo nostro.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Pal. 751
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

Few marginal rubrics by another hand record historical names and references.

Bibliography

Ms.Pal. 2, 283