Overview
Rome
Italy
Triumphus Fame Ia
Description
4°; no signature [but: a10, b8, c-d6, e12, f6, g-h8]; [64] fols.
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.
<inc> IACOPO di messer Poggio a Lorenzo di Piero de Cosimo de Medici sopra el Triomphio della fama di messer Francescho Petrarcha Prohemio
fols. 1r-2r: Bracciolini’s dedicatory letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici;
fols. 2r-62r: Triumphus Fame Ia with Bracciolini’s commentary (‘Iacopo di messer Poggio a Lorenzo di Piero di Cosimo de Medici sopra el Triompho della fama di messer Francescho Petrarcha’);
fol. 62r: register;
fols. 62v-64v: blank.
Copy Seen
British Library
London
United Kingdom
In the British Library copy, a few marginal handwritten annotations summarize the content of some paragraphs of the commentary by means of a few labelling words.
In the John Rylands Library copy, there is a decorated architectural frame with floral decorations in purple, green, and gold on a blue background (fol. 1r).
John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom