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[Triumphi]

Overview

Current Location

Wellesley College Library
Wellesley, MA
United States

Shelfmark
Plimpton 901
Creator
Date
1450-1460
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

208x137 mm; I + 47 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame, historiated and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Francissi [sic] Petrarce triumphus amoris incipit feliciter capitulus primus

Internal Description

fols. 1r-47r: Triumphi (‘Francissi [sic] Petrarce triumphus amoris incipit feliciter capitulus primus’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 47r: colophon: Deo gratias amen. Laus deo pax uiuis defunctis;
 
fol. 47r: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch by the same hand (<inc> Frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
 
fols. 47v: scattered words by different later hands.

Material Copy

Location

Wellesley College Library
Wellesley, MA
United States

Shelfmark
Plimpton 901
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Decorated initials in gold for the beginning of all the Triumphi and each subsequent capitolo; at fol. 1r is an architectural frame.

Bibliography

Dutschke 1986, 281-83 (n. 125); Ullman 1964, 466 (n. 91)