Overview
Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Milan
Italy
Triumphi
Description
270x190 mm; I + 400 (numbered at both recto and verso as 1-800) + II fols.
paper; sixteenth-century hands by two hands; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set on left underlined in red ink, with commentary distributed across the page beneath either every single line or section of text, and marginal annotations next to text of commentary; decorated initials.
<inc> PVBLIO Cornelio Scipione Nessuna maggiore victoria opiu singular triompho
fols. 1-3: Bernardo Ilicino’s prefatory letter to [Borso d’Este];
fols. 3-800: Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary (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; <inc> Uniuersale sentenzia e & dagliantichi & optimi expositori aprouata Douersi in ep[ri]ncipij delibri piu cose diligentemente considerare; <exp> Ladonde Illustrissimo prencipe questo sipuo ciaschuno persuadere che queste mie vigilie leggiera che nessunaltra cosa aquelle conponere mindusse chedimostrare amore inuerso delpoeta tollere faticha amolti chediluisidilectano & atua Illustrissima Signoria demostrare fede servirtu & deditione Laquale io desidero & priegho che sia felice secondo lauolonta tua & dichi piu te ama & desidera & adopera mantenerti ingloria p[er]infinita sequla seculor[um] Amor);
fol. 800: colophon: Finis Laus Deo Mariae[t]q[u]e matri p[ietatis].
Material Copy
Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Milan
Italy
There are two series of annotations: 1) marginal annotations in red ink (mostly for Triumphus Amoris I) presumably by the same hand that transcribed the text: these list the names of the authors of the quotations provided in the commentary; 2) additional marginal annotations in black ink by another hand (still sixteenth century) with references to names and very rare additional quotations (e.g. fol. 89: on Triumphus Amoris III.25-27: ‘Seneca dice la 2a Sal[—] meretricio amore han[—]balys oppidus inclytu[—]’).
Decorated initial for Ilicino’s prefatory letter at fol. 1.
Iter, V, 61a