Overview
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
Triumphi
Description
344x238 mm. (except fols. 3-4: 277x196 mm.); 264 + I fols.
paper (except fol. 2 in parchment); cursive humanistic script; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems either set on left, with commentary distributed across the page beneath, or underlined in red ink and included in the prose text of the commentary; decorated initials.
<inc> Ad ILLustrissimum Mutine Ducem Diuum Borsium estensem
fol. 4r-4v: Bernardo Ilicino’s prefatory letter to Borso d’Este (‘AD Illustrissimum Mutine Ducem Diuum Borsium estensem Bernardi glicini [sic] Medicin[a]e philosophy[a]e discipulj intriumphor[um] Clarissimi Poet[a]e francisci Petrarc[a]e ex positio Incipit’; <inc> PVblio Cornelio Scipione illustrissimo p[re]ncipe, nissuna maior victoria. o piu singulare t[ri]umpho; <exp> co[n] uno ardentissimo desiderio di quella sempre uedere & intendere felice nel nostro seculo & beata infuturo);
fols. 4v-264v: Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis; <inc> VNIVERsale sententia e & dagli antichi & optimi expositori approuata douersi inneprincipij delibri piu cose diligente[me]nte considerare; <exp> Ladonde Illust[rissi]mo principe questo sipuo ognuno p[er]suadere ch[e] queste mie vigilie leggera ch[e] nessuna altra cosa aquelle co[m]ponere minduce ch[e] dimostrare amore inuerso delpoeta & toller fatica amolti ch[e] dilui sidilectano: et atua Illust[rissi]ma Signoria dimostrare fede: seruitu & deditione: Laquale io desidero & prego ch[e] sia felice secondo Lauolo[n]ta tua & dichi piu teama & desidera & adop[er]a mantenerti insignoria: Perinfinita secula seculor[um] Am[en]);
fol. 264v: colophon: finis.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
Throughout the ms. are numerous concise marginal annotations in red ink by the same hand that transcribed the text either listing the names of the authors of the quotations or naming the historical or mythological figures quoted in Petrarch’s text.
Decorated initials in gold for Ilicino’s prefatory letter (fol. 4r), beginning of Ilicino’s commentary (4v), each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo, and beginning of each section of Ilicino’s commentary (fols. 7v, 28r, 51r, 64r, 64v, 76r, 77r, 98r, 99r, 113v, 114r, 129r, 161v, 162r, 199v, 202r, 230r, 230v, 246r, 246v, 264r).
CPR., 30-31; BML Mostra, 56
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Guerrini Ferri 2006, 184; Merry 1986, 239 (n. 8)