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[Triumphus Fame Ia with Bracciolini’s commentary and Bruni’s life of Petrarch]

Overview

Current Location

Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France

Shelfmark
italien 593
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphus Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

277x194 mm; 36 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; humanistic scripts; first part of the capitolo followed by commentary and then small sections of Petrarch’s poem set on left with commentary distributed across the page beneath each of them, and prose texts; other texts in prose.

Title Page

<inc> IACOPO DI MES[SER] POGGIO A LORENZO | DI PIERO DI COSIMO DE MEDICI SO | PRA EL TRIOMPHO DELLAFMA [sic] DI M[ESSER] | F[RANCESCO] PETAR[CA] [sic] P R O H E M I O (fol. 26r)

Internal Description

fols. 22v-25r: [Bruni’s] life of Petrarch by a similar hand (<inc> [F]ranciescho petrarcha huomo di grande ingegnio et no[n] diminore uirtu; <exp> massime p[er]che lauirtu ecerta et lacorona taluolta p[er]lieue giudicio chosi achi no[n] merita come a chj merita dare sipuote);
 
fol. 25r: colophon: finis;
 
fol. 25v: fragment of a letter by Leonardo Bruni addressed to the Comune of Lucca (‘Lettera scripta p[er] mess[e]r lionardo darezzo a li anziani et comune di lucha innome del comune di firenze’, <inc> Se siricerchano lechose antiche; <exp> mente inq[ue]gli [†††]);
 
fols. 26r-27v: Bracciolini’s dedicatory letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici (‘Iacopo di Mes[ser] Poggio a Lorenzo di Piero di Cosimo de Medici sopra el triompho dellafma [sic] di M[esser] F[rancesco] Petar[ca] [sic] Prohemio’, <inc> [C]omune e opinione Magnifico Lorenzo glhuomini antichi essere prudenti e sauij pella lunga experientia delle cose uedute daloro; <exp> mi metero anauicare in alto mare sperando conprospera fortuna condurmi in porto hauendo te percapitano egouernatore);
 
fol. 28r: Triumphus Fame Ia.1-24;
 
fol. 28v-36v: Bracciolini’s commentary on Triumphus Fame Ia.1-25 (<inc of commentary> El popolo roma[n]o svp[er]iore p[er]le sua singulari & inmense uirtu atutti glingegni degli scriptori conoscendo niuna cosa esser piu accepta eg[r]ata aglhuomini che la uictoria; <exp of commentary [ex abrupto]> Sequtorono [sic] dipoi quintile, sextile, septembre. Octobre. Nouenbre decembre: tutti decti dalordine nelquale sono);
 

 

Other contents:
 
fols. 1r-22v: Italian vernacularization of Ovid’s Heroides by a similar hand (‘Inchomincia lepistola douidio prolocho [sic] della pistola dipenolope [sic]’, <inc> Acio chetu lettore abbi ap[er]tamente lontendimento diq[uest]o libro; <exp> uolgieria di sua rota).

Material Copy

Location

Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France

Shelfmark
italien 593
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

The final part of the ms. (containing Bracciolini’s commentary on Triumphus Fame Ia.26-163) is missing.
 
This ms. might be a copy of another ms. (i.e. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, italien 2126). See Pellegrin 1966, 340.

A microfilm (13346) was used to create this entry.

Bibliography

Iter, III, 303a; Marsand, I, 626-27 (n° 560); Pellegrin 1966, 162 (= II, 340)