Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy
Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
203x138 mm; I + 62 + I fols.
parchment; round humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame, historiated and decorated initials.
<inc> Francisci Petrarce viri clarissimi Triumphorum liber incipit. Triumphus primus de amore
fols. 1r-46r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis); before every capitolo captions provide cross-references to the relevant Triumphus;
fol. 46r: colophon: Francisci Petrarce poete clarissimi triumphorum liber explicit feliciter;
fol. 46r: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (‘Epigrama D[omini] F[rancisci] Petrarce viri cl[arissimi]’, <inc> Frigida Francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
fol. 46r: colophon: Epitaphium D[omini] F[rancisci] P[etrarce] V[iri] Cl[arissimi] explicit
Other contents:
fols. 46v-62v: four capitoli (‘Ave pastor della tua sancta madre’, ‘Ave padre sanctissimo salue aue’, [Dante’s ‘Credo’ (actually Antonio da Ferrara’s)] ‘Iscripsi gia d’amor piu uolte in cima’, and Simone Forestani da Siena’s ‘Come per dritta linea locchio alsole’);
fol. 62v: colophon: Finita.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy
Historiated initial for Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 1r); decorated initials for the first capitolo of each Triumphus; coloured initials for the other capitoli of the Triumphi; at fol. 1r is an architectural frame (with geometrical forms, human figures, animals, and birds, with four medallions [one at each corner, representing two birds, Petrarch, Laura, respectively]); and at the bottom of fol. 1r is a coat of arms within another medallion surrounded by a wreath.
CPR, 365; CPVe, 24