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[Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary and RVF 1-136 with Filelfo’s commentary]

Overview

Place of Publication

Bologna
Italy

Date of Publication
1475-1476
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphi, RVF 1-136

Description

Physical Description: Format

folio; no signature; [243], [270] fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; Petrarch’s poems and commentary in roman type; no printed numbering; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set on left, with commentary distributed across the page beneath either every single line or section of text.

Title Page

<inc> AD Illustrissimum Mutinae Ducem Diuum Borsium estensem Ber-nardi glicini Medicinae ac philosophiae discipuli in triumphorum. CL[arissimi] P[oetae] Fra[ncisci] Petrarce expositio incipit

Internal Description

First part
 
fol. 1r: Ilicino’s dedicatory letter to Borso d’Este;
 
fols. 1r-4r Ilicino’s prologue to his commentary;
 
fols. 4r-240v: Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary;
 
fol. 240v: colophon: BONONIAE IMPRESSUM M.CCCC.L.xxv. DIE.XXVII. MENSIS APRILIS;
 
fols. 241r-243r: index of notable matters;
 
Second part
 
fol. 1r: Nicolaus Thomasoleus’s Latin letter to ‘Lupho numaio’;
 
fol. 1v: register and colophon: imp[re]ssum bononiae a[n]no d[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxvi. ad insta[n]tia[m] & petitionem Sigismundi de libris;
 
fols. 2r-270v: RVF 1-136 with Filelfo’s commentary.

Copy Seen

Location

British Library
London
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
IB28593 [Triumphi] + C.4.i.3 [RVF]
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

In the British Library copy (IB28593), at fol. 1r is a coat of arms with a unicorn surrounded by two horns of plenty.