Overview
Biblioteca Riccardiana
Florence
Italy
Triumphi + Mortis Ia, Fame Ia
Description
220x135 mm; I + 50 + I fols.
paper; two humanistic scripts (one for main text; another for the annotations); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line with annotations distributed next to line or in interlinear position; decorated initials.
‘FRANCISCI PETRARCE CLARISSIMI POETE TRIVMPHORVM VI LIBER VNICUS FELICITER INCIPIT’
fol. 1r-46v: Triumphi with annotations (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCE CLARISSIMI POETE TRIVMPHORVM VI LIBER VNICUS FELICITER INCIPIT. I[N]PRIMIS VT AMOR VICIT MVNDVM’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III.1-69, Temporis 37-145, Eternitatis);
fol. 46v: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRARCE POETE CLARISSIMI TRIVMPHORVM VI LIBER VNICV[S] FELICITER EXPLICIT. LAVS DEO, followed by three notes of possession: ‘questo libro e della orsola orlandi Anzi Questo libro e di francesco Orlandj Anzi Questo libro e di stefano mazzuoli’;
fol. 47r: eight-line poem by anonymous author (‘Nula altrui penar nula altro bramo’) followed by last four lines of [Petrarch’s] Triumphus Eternitatis and a series of personal names and names of fruits;
Other contents:
fols. 47v-48r: five strambotti by anonymous author (‘Vinto hauer il mio Corbilla Guerriera’, ‘Misero me che bramo e che desio’, ‘Ocrudelta in humana e in audita’, ‘Ardo infelice e palesar non tento’, ‘Il uiuo sol de be uostri occhi ardenti’);
fol. 48v: sonnet by anonymous author (‘Sonetto Sopra la Sig[no]ra Aurelia Comica’; <inc> Soura dogn’ altra più leggiadra e snella);
fol. 49r: series of numbers and strokes of pen;
fol. 49v: series of numbers;
fol. 50r: sonnet by anonymous author (‘greodas [sic] alluisole brunetis ciuite florentia’; <inc> Già non temere bronzino, cheiltempo auaro) followed by a thirteen-line poem (‘Lanima sol temendo ††lamorte’);
fol. 50v: scattered words, strokes of pen and sketched drawings.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Riccardiana
Florence
Italy
The anonymous annotator provides two series of Latin annotations: 1) marginal ones (introduced by the Latin ‘at’) either naming mythological or historical figures or, more often, proposing variant readings; 2) interlinear ones carrying the Latin translation of some words of the text (e.g.: ‘auea cangiata uista’: ‘mutauerat forma’, ‘fosca’: ‘turbidus’).
Initials in gold at fols. 1r, 16v, 21v, 33r, 43r.
A fol. is missing between fols. 40 and 41, presumably with lines 70-121 of Triumphus Fame III and lines 1-36 of Triumphus Temporis.
CPR, 99-100; Ms. Ricc, 112; Ms. Ricc, 2, 26