Overview
Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana
Rome
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia, Fame Ia
Description
197x113 mm, I + 192 + I fols.
parchment; humanistic script (probably a second humanistic script pens fol. 106r); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; one architectural frame; decorated initials.
<inc> A PIEDECOLLI OVE LABELLA
fols. 1r-7r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 8r-8v: blank;
fols. 9r-106r: RVF 1-263;
fols. 106r-147v: RVF 264-366 (‘INCIPIT VITA NOVA EIVSDEM PETRARCE’);
fols. 148r-184v: Triumphi (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. 185r-185v: blank;
fols. 186r-192r: [Leonardo Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> FRANCESCO PETRARCA HVOMO digrande ingegnio & non diminor uirtu; <exp> Lessere il petrarca insignito dicorona poetica & non dante: niente importa aquesta co[m]paratione imp[er]o che molto e piu dastimare elmeritare corona che hauerla riceuuta: maxime perche lauirtu e certa &lacorona taluolta perlieue giudicio cosi achi nonlamerita come achi lamerita dare si puote);
fol. 192v: prose text erased by pen and completely illegible.
Material Copy
Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana
Rome
Italy
At fols. 70v-71r, RVF 136-138 have been crossed out by pen.
Fol. 9r has an architectural frame with floral decoration and a blank coat of arms at the bottom of the fol. held by two angels. Initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 9r), Triumphus Amoris I (with decorated left border at fol. 148r), and for each subsequent Triumphus (fols. 160r, 163v, 169v, 179v, 182r).
Entry compiled on the basis of a digital copy of the ms. available only in situ using computer terminals at the Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana library.
Narducci 1874, 28; Petrucci 1977, 157