Overview
University Library
Newcastle
United Kingdom
Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
216x140 mm; III + 47 + IV fols.
parchment (modern paper flyleaves); humanistic script for main text and cursive humanistic script for annotations; Petrarch’s poems set in a central block with marginal annotations distributed irregularly on all four sides; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
‘F[rancisci] Petrarc[a]e Triumphvs primus. Incipit’
fols. 1r-45v: Triumphi with annotations (‘F[rancisci] Petrarc[a]e Triumphvs primus. Incipit’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis).
Material Copy
University Library
Newcastle
United Kingdom
Triumphus Amoris I and II are heavily annotated. The anonymous annotations, written in both Latin and vernacular, are penned by a later cursive hand. They provide biographical sketches or record the names of historical and mythological figures mentioned or implied in the Triumphi.
Among the initial flyleaves is a letter by Oxford Professor of Italian Cesare Foligno providing details on this ms. at the request of Professor Hatton. Foligno states that this ms. does not provide particularly interesting readings for a critical edition of the Triumphi and that it is very similar to mss. Ricc. 1108 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence and ms. It. IX 431 (=6206) of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice.
Fol. 1r has a three-quarter architectural frame and a coat of arms at the bottom margin, whose emblem of a wild boar with a strip of silver is similar to the one of the Florentine family of the Iacopi. Decorated initials in gold for every triumph and subsequent chapter.
Mann 1975, 347-48