Overview
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Munich
Germany
Triumphi + Fame Ia,
Description
193x130 mm; 45 fols.
parchment (except fol. 1: paper); humanistic script for the text and sixteenth-century hand for index and few annotations; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame; decorated initials.
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fol. 1r-1v: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance penned by a late-sixteenth-century hand (‘I Trionfi di M[esser] Francesco Petrarca’);
fols. 2r-45v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis 1-111, Eternitatis 13-145);
fol. 45v: colophon: FINIS. Qquelle [sic] si belle e si fec [word interrupted and followed by a scribble] | qui non si graue ponobis [sic] | quell p[er]que [scribble]; final pastedown: description of the contents of the ms. by a librarian on a fol. attached to the internal part of the cover.
Material Copy
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Munich
Germany
Fol. 1r-1v: the index of first lines is provided with some references to the different order of capitoli and variant readings in two sixteenth-century print editions of the Triumphi: Il Petrarcha con l’espositione d’Alessandro Vellutello (Venice: de Vidali, 1528, and Venice: Giolito, 1552). Fols. 2r and 28v: marginal annotations by the same hand who transcribed the index with references to variant readings of Triumphus Amoris I.4 and to the lack of Triumphus Fame Ia in the aforementioned printed editions.
The loss of a fol. between fols. 42 and 43 is the reason for the missing lines in Triumphi Temporis and Eternitatis.
Fol. 2r has an architectural frame with floral decorations, an initial in gold for Triumphus Amoris I.1, and a blue coat of arms encircled in gold.
Sottili 1971, I, 195-96; Thomas-Schmeller 1858, 96-97