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[Triumphus Fame Ia with Bracciolini’s commentary]

Overview

Place of Publication

Rome
Italy

Date of Publication
[1476]
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphus Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

4°; no signature [but: a10, b8, c-d6, e12, f6, g-h8]; [64] 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> IACOPO di messer Poggio a Lorenzo di Piero de Cosimo de Medici sopra el Triomphio della fama di messer Francescho Petrarcha Prohemio

Internal Description

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

Location

British Library
London
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
C4i6
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

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).

Location

John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Incunable Collection 18437
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati