Overview
Biblioteca Comunale Augusta
Perugia
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
285x185 mm; I + 147 (numbered 2-148) fols.
paper (except fols. I, 132, 140, 141, 144, 145, and 148 in parchment); humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line, with annotations irregularly distributed on the sides; decorated initials.
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fol. Ir-Iv: scattered words by a later hand;
fols. 2r-11v: RVF 28.95-366 with annotations (for RVF ordering, see Pulsoni 2007, 33-47);
fol. 111v: colophon: Amen. Finis. Laus deo;
fols. 112r-143r: Triumphi with annotations (‘Francischi Petrarce Triumphor[um] VI liber unicus feliciter incipit et inprimis triumphus amoris Ie. f[e]l[i]c[iter]’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 143r: colophon: Amen. Laus Deo finis;
fols. 143r-148v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 148v: colophon: laus deo.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Comunale Augusta
Perugia
Italy
Marginal and interlinear annotations by a different humanistic hand either give variant readings, or point out some names mentioned in the texts, or else provide (in Latin) some biographical information on the characters mentioned in the Triumphi (mainly Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, and Fame III).
Decorated initial in gold for Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 112r); initials in gold for the beginning of all the other Triumphi and each subsequent capitolo.
Mazzatinti, V, 116
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Pulsoni 2007