Overview
University Library
Aberdeen
United Kingdom
Triumphi + Fame Ia, Mortis Ia
Description
230x130 mm; I + 50 + I fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; decorated initial.
‘CLARISSIMI . VIRI . DOMINI . FRANCISCI . PETRARCAE . POETAE . LAVREATI . FLORENTINI . LIBER . TRIVMVPHORUM [sic] . INCIPIT . TRIVMPHVS . AMORIS’
fols. 1r-46r: Triumphi (‘CLARISSIMI . VIRI . DOMINI . FRANCISCI . PETRARCAE . POETAE . LAVREATI . FLORENTINI . LIBER . TRIVMVPHORUM [sic] . INCIPIT . TRIVMPHVS . AMORIS’; 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. 46r: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRARCE AETERNITATIS TRIVMPHR[UM]. VI. ET LIBER VNICVS FELICITER EXPLICIT. VALE QUI LEGERIS.;
fol. 46v-47r: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance (‘Tabula triumphorum domini francisci petrarcae incipit feliciter’);
fol. 47r: colophon: τελωζ;
fols. 47v-48r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Scriptum manu propria domini francisci Petrarcae poeta Laureati quodam eius Virgilio uisum est’; <inc> LAVREA PROPRIIS uirtutibus illustris & meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> inspectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
fol. 48r: colophon: τελωζ;
fols. 48v-50v: blank.
Material Copy
University Library
Aberdeen
United Kingdom
Fol. 1r has a decorated initial in gold for Triumphus Amoris I.1 and three coats of arms in the lower margin. The central one shows an eradicated tree in a green wreath; on either side are two other partially erased coats of arms.
To the unidentified copyist of this ms. might also be attributed: mss. London, British Library, Additional 24638; Oxford, Balliol College, 140; Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Lat. XII. 68 (= 4519) (Mann 1975, 150).
At fol. 43r a manicula indicates the actual position of an omitted tercet (Triumphus Temporis 130-32) written in the lower margin.
Iter IV, 4b; James 1932, 40; Mann 1975, 149-50