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[Triumphi with annotations]

Overview

Current Location

Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Canonici Ital. 83
Date
late-fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

212x144 mm; V + 52 + IV fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

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.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Nel tempo che rinoua i miei sospiri

Internal Description

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

Location

Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Canonici Ital. 83
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

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.

Bibliography

Mann 1975, 416-18; Mortara 1864, 102; Pächt and Alexander, II, 42