Overview
Bologna
Italy
Triumphi, RVF 1-136
Description
folio; no signature; [243], [270] fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems and commentary in roman type; no printed numbering; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set on left, with commentary distributed across the page beneath either every single line or section of text.
<inc> AD Illustrissimum Mutinae Ducem Diuum Borsium estensem Ber-nardi glicini Medicinae ac philosophiae discipuli in triumphorum. CL[arissimi] P[oetae] Fra[ncisci] Petrarce expositio incipit
First part
fol. 1r: Ilicino’s dedicatory letter to Borso d’Este;
fols. 1r-4r Ilicino’s prologue to his commentary;
fols. 4r-240v: Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary;
fol. 240v: colophon: BONONIAE IMPRESSUM M.CCCC.L.xxv. DIE.XXVII. MENSIS APRILIS;
fols. 241r-243r: index of notable matters;
Second part
fol. 1r: Nicolaus Thomasoleus’s Latin letter to ‘Lupho numaio’;
fol. 1v: register and colophon: imp[re]ssum bononiae a[n]no d[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxvi. ad insta[n]tia[m] & petitionem Sigismundi de libris;
fols. 2r-270v: RVF 1-136 with Filelfo’s commentary.
Copy Seen
British Library
London
United Kingdom
In the British Library copy (IB28593), at fol. 1r is a coat of arms with a unicorn surrounded by two horns of plenty.