Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale
Naples
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
280x119 mm; III + 148 fols.
paper; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
<inc> Uoi che ascultate
fols. 1r-108v: RVF;
fol. 108v: colophon: am[en];
fols. 108v-109v: five anonymous poems all written by the same hand (‘comes rubinj’): four sonnets (‘Sel mio leal seruir pelamia fede’, ‘Jo me credea che lioni ursi et draghi’, ‘Non credo che se troue de beltate’, and ‘Felice piramo piu chaltri no[n] crede’) and a poem in terza rima (‘Al folgorar de duj ochi lucenti’);
fol. 110r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Incipiu[n]t dicta q[ue]dam d[omi]nj francisci petrarce poete flore[n]tinj rep[er]ta i[n] quoda[m] uirgilio i[n] papiensi Biblioteca manu p[ro]p[ri]a scripta’, <inc> Laurea p[ro]prijs uirtutib[us] illustris et meis longum celebrata carminib[us]; <exp> i[n] expectatos exitus acriter ac viril[ite]r cogita[n]t[i]’);
fol. 110r: extract from Petrarch’s Latin letter to Giacomo Colonna (Fam. II.9) (‘verba i[n] ep[isto]lia [sic] quodam ad Jacobum de colupua [sic] lomboriensem ep[iscop]um’, <inc> Quid ergo ais finxisse me mihi speciosam [sic] Lauree; <exp> tibi pallor tibi labor meus notus est);
fol. 110r-110v: eight-line Latin poem from Fam. XI.4 (‘Valle locus clausa toto mihi nullus i[n] orbe’);
fols. 110v-111r: five anonymous poems by the same hand (‘Jo vidi amor auzato [sic] et pien di doglia’, ‘Jo vegio ben chel mio stentar te joco’, ‘Poy che p[er] ben seruir porto tromento [sic]’, ‘Vegio madon[n]a el tuo voler cambiato’, and ‘Vidi duj lumi assaj piu chiarj chel sole’);
fol. 111v: blank;
fols. 112r-148v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 148v: a pen drawing (of two fighting warriors?);
fol. 148r: title (‘magi[stri] nicolaj g[†]lump[er]to’) followed by four sonnets by the same hand (‘Se la fortuna ta facto segnore’, ‘Colluj ch[e] bacte no[n] conta le bocte’, ‘Chi tucto vol quieij [sic] morir de rabia’, and ‘P[er] dire la verita se apicha gli huominj’);
fol. 148v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale
Naples
Italy
At fol. 78v, close to RVF 267, a marginal annotation by a different hand points out the beginning of the second part of RVF (‘seconda Parte In morte di M[adonna] Laura’); other scattered marginal annotations by a different hand either re-write some Petrarchan lines that might have been of interest to the annotator, or give variant readings; a few maniculae.
At fol. 49r-49v, RVF 136-138 have been crossed out by pen.
Decorated initial for RVF 1 (fol. 1r); decorated initial in gold for Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 112r); at fol. 1r is an architectural frame with a coat of arms at the bottom of the fol.
CPR, 256