Overview
Venice
Italy
Triumphi, RVF
Description
folio; a-t8, A-M8, N6; [152], [102] fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems and commentary in gothic; no printed numbering; some of Petrarch’s poems set on left in small block, with commentary distributed on three sides; some other of Petrarch’s poems set on left in a sequence of blocks, with commentary distributed in single column on right; some other ones set on both left and right in two horizontally aligned blocks, with commentary distributed across the page beneath each set of two blocks.
<inc> AD Illustrissimu[m] Mutine Ducem Di[v]um Borsium Estensem Bernardi glicini Medicine ac philosophie discipuli in triumphorum CL[arissimi] P[oetae] Fran[cisci] Petrarce expositio incipit
First part
a1r-a1v: blank;
a2r: Ilicino’s dedicatory letter to Borso d’Este;
a2r-a3v: Ilicino’s prologue to his commentary;
a4r-t8v: Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary;
t8v: register and colophon: Finisse il co[m]mento delli triumphi del Petrarcha composto per il prestantissimo philosopho messer Bernardo da monte Alano da Sena. Impresso per Piero Ueronese nella inclita citta da Uenexia nelli a[n]ni de Signore. M.cccc.lxxx.iiii.a di vltimo de Mazo. Laus Deo;
Second part
A1r-A1v: blank;
A2r: Filelfo’s dedicatory letter to Filippo Maria Visconti;
A2v-N5v: RVF 1-135 with Filelfo’s commentary, followed by RVF 136 with Filelfo’s and Squarciafico’s commentaries, followed by RVF 137-366 with Squarciafico’s commentary. No explicit mention is made of the fact that the commentator changes in the text. Squarciafico’s name is only mentioned in the explicit of his commentary;
N5v: register and colophon: Finis dil canzionero di Franciesco petrarcha per maistro Piero cremoneso dicto veroneso impresso in Uenesia a di.18.del meso de augusto M.cccclxxxiii.
Copy Seen
British Library
London
United Kingdom