Overview
Biblioteca Comunale
Treviso
Italy
Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
213x144 mm; I + 43 fols.
paper; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; decorated initials.
Lanocte che seguilorribel chaso
fol. Ir: scattered words by a late-seventeenth- or eighteenth-century hand;
fol. Iv: shelfmark of the ms.;
fol. 1v: blank;
fols. 2r-41r: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 41r: colophon: Deo gratias amen;
fol. 41r: a short exegetical paragraph on the Triumphi by the same hand (‘Intentio pretrarce [sic] in triumphis’, ‘nel primo triumpho triumpha lamor, et le uirtu suo [sic]. nel segundo madona laura triu[m]pho d[e] lamor et le ui[r]tu so [sic]. Nel t[er]ço la morte triumpho de madona laura. nel quarto la fama triumpho de la morte. nel quinto el tempo triumpho de la fama. nel sesto i[n]die iudicij Jh[esu]s d[omi]n[u]s triumphator nobis oste[n]det’); below which is a second colophon: Ad laude[m] D[omini] n[ostri] y[esus] x[risti] eiusq[ue] s[an]ctissime m[at]ris & semp[er] uirginis Marie ac b[ea]tissimi Jeronimi complete[m] fuit opus per me Lucinu[m] Joanne[m] Nicola[m] de pratto filius eximij uiris utiusq[que] doctoris D[omini] Iohannis petri de pratto Moccccolxviiij die martis ultimo Januarij hora t[er]cia noctis & c[etera];
fols. 41v-43v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Comunale
Treviso
Italy
Decorated initials for Trumphus Mortis II (fol. 2r); at the bottom of fol. 2r is a coat of arms within a wreath.
Four separate letters (all dated 1894, dealing with the ms., and written either by or to the head librarian of the Biblioteca Comunale of Treviso) are included in the ms.
Bampo-Bailo 1876-1880, I, 130-31