Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
204x143 mm; I + 160 + I fols.
paper; mercantesca; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; decorated initials.
Chominziano le Rubriche di sonetti di Mess[er] franchescho petrarcha laureato poeta
fol. 1r-1v: three sonnets (‘Gionse a me penssier sopra martirj’, ‘Non fu si vago Menelao o Agamenone’, and ‘Laso chor mai uedomi del tuto’);
fols. 2r-7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Chominziano le Rubriche di sonetti di Mess[er] franchescho petrarcha laureato poeta’);
fol. 8r-8v: blank;
fols. 9r-131r: RVF;
fol. 131r: colophon: Finiti i sonettj di Mis[ser] fra[n[cescho petarcha [sic] poeta laureato M. CCCC. XLVIIII. In Lignago, adi XXIII dezembrio;
fol. 131v: blank;
fols. 132r-159v: Triumphi (‘Inchominciano itriomphi di mis[ser] francescho petarcha [sic] poeta laureato. Triompho p[ri]mo’, order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 159v: colophon: Finittj i t[ri]omphi del mis[ser] fra[n]cescho petarcha [sic] poeta laureate. M. CCCC. L. adi V zener. in ligniago;
fol. 160r: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (‘Epitaphius d[omi]nj Fra[n]ciscj petarce [sic] laureatj poette [sic]’, <inc> Frigida fra[n]cisj lapis hic tegit ossa petarce); in the same fol., the epitaph is written out a second time in a cursive humanistic script;
fol. 160v: two sonnets (‘Poj ch[e]n ter[r]a chossa no[n] vidi’ and ‘Non fu si bello il productor dil fiore’).
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy
At fol. 94v, scattered marginal annotations close to RVF 263 and 264: on the left margin of RVF 263: ‘francisci petrarce Laureati poete de dilecta sua vita qua[m] p[er] an[nos] xxi. adamauit. Vulgaricu[m] carm[en] explicit’; on the left margin of RVF 264: ‘Incipit de morte cuisd[a]m quam post obitum an[nos] x. deplorauit ut seq[u]itur’.
Further occasional marginal annotations provide either variant readings (e.g., fol. 98v), or missing lines (e.g., fol. 113r), or else names of the characters mentioned in the capitoli of the Triumphi; several maniculae.
Coloured initials for every RVF poem and every tercet in the sonnets (or stanza of canzoni); at the bottom of fol. 9r is a coat of arms.
CPR, 341; CPVe, 4