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[RVF and Triumphi – with Bruni’s life of Petrarch]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy

Shelfmark
Pal. 307
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi (except Triumphus Amoris I-IV) + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

231x149 mm; II + 151 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; four rectangular-box illuminations; decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Passo qui cose gloriose & magne

Internal Description

fols. 1r-22r: Triumphi (order: Pudicitie 115-194, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I.1-79, Fame II.6-125, Fame III.19-121, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 22r: colophon: FINIS triumphorum. FINIS triunpar [sic];
 
fol. 22v: blank;
 
fols. 23r-28v: Leonardo Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCE VITA Per Leonardum aretinum edita’; <inc> FRancesco petrarcha huomo di grande ingegno & non di minore uirtu; <exp> Essere il Petrarcha insignito di Corona poetica e non Dante niente importa aquesta co[m]paratione peroche molto pui [sic] e dastimare il meritar corona che hauerla riceuuta. Maxime perche la uirtu e certa eLa corona tal uolta per lieue iudicio cosi achi non merita como achi merita dare si pote);
 
fols. 29r-151v: RVF 28-366.1-108.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy

Shelfmark
Pal. 307
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

Each of the Triumphi is preceded by a rectangular-box illumination: Mortis (fol. 2r), Fame (fol. 11v), Temporis (fol. 16v), Eternitatis (fol. 19v). Initials in gold for Triumphus Mortis I (fol. 2r), Fame I (fol. 11v), Temporis (fol. 16v), Eternitatis (fol. 19v), and Bruni’s life of Petrarch (fols. 23r).
 
Missing capitoli and lines of the Triumphs and missing RVF poems due to the loss of fols.

Bibliography

Boselli 1935, 249; CPR, 155; Iter, II, 36a