Overview
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
210x135 mm; I + 186 + I fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; two architectural frames; decorated initials.
‘Tauola de sonetti et cançone delloillustrissimo poeta fiorentino Mess[er] francesco petrarca’
fols. 1r-7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems with metre specified (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Tauola de sonetti et cançone delloillustrissimo poeta fiorentino Mess[er] francesco petrarca’);
fol. 7v: colophon: finita latauola ditutti sonetti et cançone dello illustrissimo poeta Messer francesco petrarca cioe Sonetti cccxxv. cançone xli. finis;
fol. 8r-8v: blank;
fols. 9r-147v: RVF 1-366 (‘SONETTI ET CANÇONE DELLO ILLUSTRISSIMO POETA MESSER FRANC[ESC]O PETRARCA’);
fol. 147v: colophon: finis. Tuttj Morali diMesser francesco petrarca _ xli. Tuttj Sonetti di decto messer francesco . cccxxiiii. FINIS;
fol. 148r-148v: blank;
fols. 149r-185v: Triumphi (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCE POETE CLARISSIMI DEAMORE TRIVMPHVS PRIM[VS] INCIPIT’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 185v: colophon: finis. FRANCISCI PETRARCE TRIVMPHVS SEXTVS ET VLTIMVS EXPLICIT LEGE FELICITER: DEO GRATIAS;
fols. 186r: a short summary of the Triumphi in Latin: ‘Amor mundum. Pudicitia amorem . . . eternitatis omnia uincit’;
fol. 186v: pencil drawing of a fist.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
Fol. 9r and fol. 149r have an architectural frame with white vine-stem decoration and small animals. At the bottom of fol. 9r are two cupids and a blank coat of arms.
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1, the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo (except Amoris III).
Bandini, It, 103; CPR, 18-19
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Guerrini Ferri 1986a, 165, 175; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 183; Pasquini 1975, 224 (n. 1)