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[Triumphi with annotations]

Overview

Current Location

Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Milan
Italy

Shelfmark
H 98 Inf.
Date
first half of the fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphi

Description

Physical Description: Format

255x190 mm; I + 40 (numbered 1-39) + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment (except modern paper flyleaves); two main scripts: gothic hand (main text) and mercantesca (for the annotations); various other hands pen poems in the last few fols. and provide brief annotations; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line, with annotations irregularly distributed on three sides; one architectural frame; decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> NEL TEMPO CHE RINOUA I MEI SOSPIRI PER LA DOLCE MEMORIA DI QEL GIORNO

Internal Description

fols. 1r-35v: Triumphi with annotations (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis Ia, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
Other contents:
 
fol. 36r: [Leonardo Giustiniani’s] canzonetta ‘Val [sic] nimpha i[n] fonte o qual’ (lines 1-5);
 
fols. 36v-39r: blank;
 
fol. 39v: [Antonio Tebaldeo’s] sonnet ‘Io ti vedo ma[n]char languido fiore’ (lines 1-5, copied twice).

Material Copy

Location

Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Milan
Italy

Shelfmark
H 98 Inf.
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

There are two series of annotations: 1) concise and occasional marginal annotations by various hands (still fifteenth century) with references to historical and mythological figures; 2) some longer interlinear and marginal annotations set in small blocks by another hand (still fifteenth century) only for Triumphus Amoris I, III, IV (fols. 1r-7r). These notes explain or paraphrase the text: e.g. on Triumphus Amoris III.83-84 the note briefly narrates the story of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini (fol. 5r: ‘paulo et anzioto frateli di malatesti sigiore [sic] di riminj funo. paulo tolse una francesca p[er] molgiera ††† laq[ua]le lega[n]do [sic] a[n]cioto una uolta uno libro dam[m]ore p[e]rch [sic] li re[n]cresca luj labaso epoi stuprola una uolta li acato paulo tolse uno cortelo e amazoli tuti dui. on[de] be[n] dice facendo dolorosi pianti’).
 
Decorated initials for every capitolo of the Triumphi. Fol. 1r has an architectural frame with floral decorations; at the bottom of the same fol., two erased coats of arms; few maniculae.
 
Fol. 31 has been counted twice.

Bibliography

FP Ambr., 76-77; P.MI 1904, 54