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[Triumphi with annotations]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Vat. Lat. 8948
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphi (except Mortis II) + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

243x170 mm; III + 64 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line, with annotations irregularly distributed on the sides; one architectural frame and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Nel tempo che rinuova [sic] emie sospiri

Internal Description

fols. 1r-64v: Triumphi with annotations (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis).

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Vat. Lat. 8948
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Marginal annotations by at least three different hands include: addition of missing lines; variant readings; references to names of characters mentioned in the poems; reference to basic rhetorical features of the poems (e.g., ‘comparatione’ or ‘bella sententia’); additional pieces of information in Latin about the characters referred to in the poems (e.g., fol. 26r: ‘tuctia f[uit] que [sic] i[n]cesti accusata est ut, in octauo ualeri max[imi] doc[et(?)] ex capitul[o] p[rim]o’).
 
Decorated initials in gold for the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; at fol. 1r is an architectural frame with a coat of arms at the bottom of the fol.

Bibliography

Vattasso 1909, 73-74
 
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Guerrini Ferri 1986, 173; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 182 and 211