Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy
Triumphus Fame Ia
Description
284 x 193; II + 72 + I fols.
paper; humanistic script; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set on left in red ink, with commentary in black ink distributed across the page beneath either every single line or section of text; additional marginal annotations mostly in red ink (fols. 9v-10v: purple ink) next to the prose text of commentary.
<inc> Commune e opinione Magnificho Lorenço gli huomini antichi essere prudenti e savi
fols. 1r-2r: Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini’s dedicatory letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici (<inc> Commune e opinione Magnificho Lorenço gli huomini antichi essere prudenti e savi; <exp> sperando con prospera fortuna condurmi in porto havendo te per capitano et governatore);
fol. 2r: colophon: Finisce elproemio;
fols. 2r-69v: Triumphus Fame Ia with Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini’s commentary (‘Iacopo Di Messer poggio a Lorenzzo [sic] di piero di Cosimo de Medici. Sopra el Triompho. Della Fama Di Maestro Francesco Petrarcha’);
fol. 69v: colophon: Finis. Petrus de enciso hispanensis captiuus regis Tunetis scripsit hunc librum. ad laudem Christi fuit perfectus indie jovis xvi in dies januarij anno anativitate d[omi]ni M cccc lxx vii- Felice mente finisce;
fols. 70r-71v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy
In the margins are multiple annotations that include brief summaries, names of characters, speakers, and addressees, and discussion of rhetorical features.
Fol. 1r has a decorated architectural frame with coat of arms at the bottom of the page; decorated initials for dedicatory letter (fol. 2r) and Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini’s commentary (fol. 2v).
Fol. 71 has been torn out except for a few remaining fragments
Iter, II, 275a, II, 575a