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[Triumphi with Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Panc. 14
Date
1469
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphus Amoris I, III, and IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I and II, Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

227x160 mm; III + 127 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; humanistic script; section of each capitolo (in red ink) set on left and followed by commentary (in black ink) distributed across the page beneath it.

Title Page

<inc> [I]ncomincia illibro chiamato trionpho damore scripto & composto dallo excellentissimo poeta & sommo mess[er] franc[esc]o petrarcha di fireçe [sic]

Internal Description

fol. Ir: title page by a later hand (‘Comento sopra i Trionfi del Petrarca’);
 
fols. Iv-IIv: blank;
 
fol. IIIr: anonymous sonnet ‘Senpre sidice che un fa male acento’ by a semi-gothic hand;
 
fol. IIIv: a few pen strokes;
 
fol. 1r: introductory paragraph of Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary (<inc> [I]ncomincia illibro chiamato trionpho damore scripto & composto dallo excellentissimo poeta & sommo mess[er] franc[esc]o petrarcha di fireçe; <exp> maschi & femine hanno trio[n]fato ponendo loro felicita i[n] alchuno diquegli ciascuno sottomettendosi algiogo damore transformandosi inquella chosa piu amo me[n]tre visse);
 
fol. 1r-1v: Pseudo-Filelfo’s prologue to his commentary (<inc> [L]o primo triomfo ouero felicita fu inauer possessione ouero contentamento di sua donna i[n]amorata; <exp> sara poi ariuederla i[n]cielo glorificata quasi uoglia dire lingua humana no[n] es[t] sufficiente adirlo);
 
fols. 1v-127v: Triumphus Amoris I, III.1-109, IV.13-100, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia+I.19-120, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-59 with Pseudo-Filelfo’s commentary (<inc of commentary> Circa alprincipio diquesto capitolo edanotare ch[e] lauctore secondo ch[e] scriue in uno de suoi sonetti ilquale chimi[n]cia; <exp of commentary> questi parechi chiouidi furono Rutilio. uolumio. gracco. e fylo dequalj disopra e dichiarato fatti p[er] uirtu darmj altj egientilj cioe costoro uidi io);
 
fol. 127v: colophon: Ego Iulianus bartho[lome]i de ciglianis hoc opus scripsi deme[n]se nouenbris atq[ue] dece[n]bris M°cccc°lxviiij°. Finis

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Panc. 14
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Occasional marginal annotations by at least three different later hands, either signal the beginning of a new capitolo of the Triumphi, or point out the names of the characters mentioned in the texts, or else provide a very short summary of a passage.

Bibliography

Datati, XXI, 88; Iter, I, 145b; MsPanch, 14
 
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Allenspach 1986 and 1993