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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Houghton Library
Cambridge, MA,
United States

Shelfmark
Richardson 43
Creator
Date
1440
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

238x162 mm; I + 186 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

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

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> A pie de colli oue labella uesta

Internal Description

fols. 1r-7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 7v: Petrarch’s note on Laura by a different hand (<inc> Laura proprijs uirtutibus illustris et meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> et i[n] expectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fol. 7v: colophon: Deo gratias;
 
fol. 8r-8v: blank;
 
fols. 9r-149r: RVF;
 
fol. 149r: colophon: Finis;
 
fols. 149v-186r: Triumphi (‘Incominciano etriumphi di mess[er] francesco petrarca’, order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 186r: colophon: Finiscono e triumphi dimesser francesco petrarcha. Deo gratias Amen. 1440;
 
fol. 186v: a note by a later hand (‘Sine cerere et Baccho frigit Venus’).

Material Copy

Location

Houghton Library
Cambridge, MA,
United States

Shelfmark
Richardson 43
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 and 2 (fol. 9r) and Triumphus Mortis II (fol. 149v).
 
Before every RVF poem is a running number written in red.
 
RVF 113.1-4 (fol. 56r) and RVF 136-138 (fols. 71r-72r) are crossed out by pen but still legible.

Bibliography

Dutschke 1986, 85-87 (n. 22); Ullman 1964, 448-49 (n. 14)