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

Overview

Current Location

National Library of Russia
Saint Petersburg
Russia

Shelfmark
Ital. Ov. XIV.1
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

175x106 mm; I + 161 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> ogni suo dire intanto sprezzaua la legge

Internal Description

fols. 1r-4r: [Leonardo Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (<inc ex abrupto> ogni suo dire intanto sprezzaua la legge et loro tediosi & grossi come[n]tation egiose; <exp> morto ilpetrarcha le muse sue ritenne & quasi heredita fu subcessore rimasono a dunque albocchaccio e inlui risedette lafama);
 
fol. 4v: blank;
 
fol. 5r: list of colours and their meaning penned in two columns;
 
fol. 5v: blank;
 
fols. 6r-12v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Tabula totius operis’);
 
fol. 12v: colophon: τελωζ;
 
fols. 13r-97v: RVF 4-109, 114-263;
 
fols. 98r-132r: RVF 264-303, 320-366;
 
fol. 132v: blank;
 
fols. 133r-161v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I.55-160, Amoris III, Amoris IV.61-166, Amoris II, Pudicitie 61-180, Mortis I.82-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-132, Fame I.88-130, Fame II, Fame III.1-90, Mortis I.22-81, Temporis 25-144, Eternitatis 55-145);
 
fol. 161v: colophon: Finis felicit[er].

Material Copy

Location

National Library of Russia
Saint Petersburg
Russia

Shelfmark
Ital. Ov. XIV.1
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

Decorated border with gold decorated initial on a blue background for RVF 164 (fol. 98r), RVF 366 (fol. 129v), Triumphus Amoris III (fol. 134v), and Triumphus Mortis II (fol. 146v). Gold decorated initial on a blue background for alphabetical index (fol. 6r); decorated initial alternatively in gold or pen for each RVF poem.

Bibliography

Bernardskaja 1979, 549-50