Overview
Bibioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
206x135 mm; III + 65 + III fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame, historiated and decorated initials.
<inc> Cominciano itriumphy dimesser F[rancesco] petrarca i quali sono vi diuisi in cap[itol]o [sic] xiiijo & p[ri]ma damore
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
Bibioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
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.
Boselli 1935, 258; CPR, 159