Overview
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia, Fame Ia
Description
270x185 mm; VIII + 178 + I fols.
paper; mercantesca; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; decorated initials.
<inc> Apie dechollj oue labella uesta
fols. IIr-VIIIr: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. VIIIv: blank;
fols. 1r-139r: RVF (‘Sonettj et chanzone delmagnifico laureato mess[er] franc[esc]o petrarcha poeta fiorentino’);
fol. 139r: colophon: deo gratias. Finitj isonettj etle chanzone dellaureato magnifico poeta mess[er] franc[esc]o petrarcha qui scripsit scribat semp[er] chumd[omi]no uiuat. amen;
fol. 139v: blank;
fols. 140r-176r: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis, Mortis Ia);
fol. 176r: colophon: FINIS;
followed by a brief paragraph on Triumphus Mortis Ia: ‘Questo capitolino e unchapitolo nonfinito cheseghujta quello che dice | quando ad ungiogho et inunte[m]po quiui domita lalterezza dellj de etcetc’; and by a second colophon: Amen finis Finitj itriumph [sic] delmagnificho laureato mess[er] franc[esc]o petrarcha poeta fiorentino Che scrissit scribat et semp[er] chumd[omi]no uiuat;
fols. 176v-178v: one dispersa (frottola ‘Diridere o gran uoglia’).
Material Copy
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
There are two kinds of occasional annotations: 1) marginal annotations by the same hand that transcribed the main text record either variant readings or missing lines; 2) two annotations by a later hand (presumably sixteenth century) next to RVF 299 (fol. 111v: extensive remarks on the events related to its composition) and Triumphus Fame Ia (fol. 143r: noting that this capitolo is nowhere to be found in printed editions: ‘Ne nuoui uolumi questo capitolo no[n] si legge’).
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 1r) and Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 140r); some maniculae.
Bandini, It, 108; CPR, 21-22
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Guerrini Ferri 1986a, 165, 177; Guerrini Ferri 1986b, 21, 30-31; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 183; Solerti 1909, 274