Overview
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
Triumphus Fame Ia
Description
215x153 mm; V + 129 + II fols.
parchment; humanistic script; first part of the capitolo (in red ink) followed by commentary (in black ink) and then small sections of Petrarch’s poem set on left (in red ink) with commentary (in black ink) distributed across the page beneath each of them, and annotations irregularly distributed on the sides; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
Iacopo dimesser Poggio a Lorenço di Piero di Cosimo de Medici sopra eltriompho della fama di Messer Franciescho Petrarcha. Proemio
fols. Ir-IIIv: blank;
fol. IVr: scattered words by two later hands;
fols. IVv-Vr: blank;
fol. Vv: title (‘Inquesto volume sicontiene ilcomento di Iacopo dimessere Poggo [sic] Dafirenze sopra il trionfo della fama’) written in capital letters within a decorated circle;
fols. 1r-3r: Bracciolini’s dedicatory letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici (‘Iacopo dimesser Poggio a Lorenço di Piero di Cosimo de Medici sopra eltriompho della fama di Messer Franciescho Petrarcha. Proemio’, <inc> Comune e opinione magnifico Lorençe [sic] gli huomini antichi fossero prudenti et saui perla lungha experientia delle cose uedute da loro; <exp> mimectero anauichare inalto mare sperando con prospera fortuna condurmi inporto hauendo te per capitano et ghouernatore);
fol. 3r: colophon: fine del Prohemio;
fol. 3v: Triumphus Fame Ia.1-24;
fols. 4r-128v: Triumphus Fame Ia.25-163 with annotations and Bracciolini’s commentary (‘Iacopo di Messer Poggio a Lorenço di Piero di Cosimo de Medici sopra eltriumpho de la fama di Messer francescho Petrarcha’, <inc> Elpopolo romano superiore perle sue singulari et inmense uirtu atucti li ingegni delli scriptori chonoscendo niuna chosa esser piu accepta et grata alli huomini che lauittoria; <exp> consumata lauita sua Carlo in Aquisgrana cipta presso al Rheno mori in eta danni settantuno negli annj di cripsto [sic] ottoce[n]to quindici et delsuo imperio quarantasette co[n] grandissima gloria et beniuolentia in audita de suoi popoli);
fol. 128v: colophon: finis. Deo Gratias Amen;
fols. 128v-129r: two short prayers against the black plague by two sixteenth-century hands, one in Latin prose (‘Oratio contra pesti [sic]’), and the other in vernacular verse (twelve hendecasyllables, <inc> Alta Regina della Ternitate), between the two orations two notes about two births (1525 and 1528);
fol. 129v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
Marginal annotations by the same hand either refer to the name of the characters mentioned in the texts, or give brief summaries of some passages; some maniculae and passages highlighted by vertical strokes close to the end of the lines.
Decorated initial in gold for Bracciolini’s dedicatory letter (fol. 1r); at fol. 1r is an architectural frame with a coat of arms (erased) within a wreath at the bottom of the fol.
Salvo Cozzo 1897, 264-65; Vattasso 1909, 248
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Guerrini Ferri 2006, 181