Overview
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
212x144 mm; V + 52 + IV fols.
parchment; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line, with annotations irregularly distributed on the sides; eight rectangular-box drawings, thirteen architectural frames, historiated and decorated initials.
<inc> Nel tempo che rinoua i miei sospiri
fols. 1r-51r: Triumphi with annotations (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis); before every triumph is a rectangular-box drawing: Triumphus Amoris I (1r), Amoris III (5r), Amoris IV (9v), Pudicitie (18r), Mortis I (22v), Fame Ia (31r), Temporis (44v), Eternitatis (48r);
fol. 51r: colophon: finis;
fol. 51r: note of possession by a sixteenth-century hand (‘Albertus Corradus p.c.f.q.’), followed by scattered letters and words by the same hand;
fol. 51v: blank;
fol. 52r: scattered words by a different hand and another note of possession by the same hand as that of fol. 51r (‘Albertus Corradus Regiensis I.V.D.’);
fol. 52v: blank.
Material Copy
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
Marginal annotations by the same hand note names of the characters and provide short explanations about historical and mythological figures mentioned in the capitoli.
Historiated initial for Triumphus Amoris I showing a half-bust portrait of a noblewoman (fol. 1r); decorated initials for the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; in all decorated fols. is an architectural frame. All decorations and illuminations are sketched in pen and left uncoloured.
Mann 1975, 416-18; Mortara 1864, 102; Pächt and Alexander, II, 42