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[Triumphi]

Overview

Current Location

Bibioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy

Shelfmark
Parm. 2508
Creator
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

206x135 mm; III + 65 + III fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame, historiated and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Cominciano itriumphy dimesser F[rancesco] petrarca i quali sono vi diuisi in cap[itol]o [sic] xiiijo & p[ri]ma damore

Internal Description

fols. 1r-52v: Triumphi (‘Cominciano itriumphy dimesser F[rancesco] petrarca i quali sono vi diuisi in cap[itol]o [sic] xiiijo & p[ri]ma damore’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 52v: colophon: Ego Aloysius pulcher scripsi;
 
fol. 52v: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (<inc> Frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
 
 

 

Other contents:
 
fols. 53r-65v: Francesco degli Arsocchi da Siena’s Italian Eclogues (‘Egloga p[ri]ma francisci de arsochis desenis’, <inc> Dim[m]i Terintho che hai zampogna & cetera | truouansegli hoggi depastor che cantino; <exp> diqua dal giro delle stelle prime | ma non sattenda che non si potrebbe [the last line is copied ten other times]).

Material Copy

Location

Bibioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy

Shelfmark
Parm. 2508
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Occasional marginal annotations by the same hand add some missing words.
 
Historiated initial for Triumphus Amoris I showing Cupid throwing an arrow (fol. 1r); decorated initials in gold for Triumphus Pudicitie (fol. 18r), Mortis I (fol. 23r), Fame Ia (fol. 31v), Temporis (fol. 45v), Eternitatis (fol. 49r); at fol. 1r is an architectural frame with a coat of arms (erased) between two standing cupids.

Bibliography

Boselli 1935, 258; CPR, 159