Overview
Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
RVF, Triumphi (except Triumphus Amoris I-IV) + Fame Ia
Description
231x149 mm; II + 151 + II fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; four rectangular-box illuminations; decorated initials.
<inc> Passo qui cose gloriose & magne
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
Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
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.
Boselli 1935, 249; CPR, 155; Iter, II, 36a