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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Ms. 170
Creator
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

240x153 mm; I + 185 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; one full-page illumination (portrait), decorated initials, and two separate titles within two architectural frames.

Visual Elements
Title Page

FRANCISCUS PETRAR | CAE | POETAE CLARISSI[MI] | VVLGARIA | FELICITER INCIPIVNT | DD

Internal Description

fol. 1r: blank;
 
fol. 1v: title (‘FRANCISCUS PETRAR | CAE | POETAE CLARISSI[MI] | VVLGARIA | FELICITER INCIPIVNT | DD’) within an illuminated architectural frame with a plant on its left;
 
fol. 2r: title (‘SONETTI, & CANZO | NI | DI | M[ESSE]R FRANCESCHO PE | TRARCHA | DD’) within an illuminated architectural frame with a swan on the right;
 
fol. 2v: full-page portrait of Petrarch’s head;
 
fols. 2r-98v: RVF 1-263 with dispersa ‘Donna mi viene spesso nella mente’;
 
fol. 99r-99v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Haec reperta sunt in Papiensi bibliotheca in q[ue]dam Virgilio Domini Francisci petrarcae scripta manu propria eiusdem Domini francisci petrarcae’, <inc> Laurea propriis virtvtibvs illvstris et meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> inexpectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti’);
 
fol. 99v: extract from Petrarch’s Latin letter to Giacomo Colonna (Fam. II.9) (‘Hec etiam sunt uerba sua in epistola quadam scripta ad Iacobum de Columna Lomberiensem Ep[iscop]um’, <inc> Quid ergo ais finxisse me mihi spetiosum laureae nomen; <exp> Tibi pallor: tibi labor meus notus est & c[e]t[era]);
 
fol. 99v: eight-line Latin poem from Fam. XI.4 (‘Valle locus clausa toto mihi nullus in orbe’);
 
fol. 100r: blank;
 
fols. 100v-140v: RVF 264-366;
 
fol. 141r-141v: blank;
 
fols. 142r-178r: Triumphi (‘Francisci Petrarcae laureate poetae triumphi incipiunt’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 178r: colophon: τελωσ;
 
fol. 178v: blank;
 
fols. 179r-185v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed according to order of appearance).

Material Copy

Location

Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Ms. 170
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Occasional marginal annotations by a similar hand either add missing words, or give variant readings, or else point out possible non-Petrarchan poems (e.g., the ballad ‘Donna mi viene spesso nella mente’, at fol. 52r).
 
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 3r), RVF 264 (fol. 100v), Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 142r); decorated initials for all other RVF poems and every other capitolo of the Triumphi; at fols. 1v and 2r is an architectural frame.

Bibliography

Mann 1975, 164-66