Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia and Mortis Ia
Description
215x140 mm; I + 220 + II fols.
paper; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
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fol. Ir: title by a later hand (‘Rime’);
fol. I v: blank;
fols. 1r-169r: RVF;
fol. 169r: colophon: finis;
fols. 169r-214r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 214r: colophon: Finis;
fol. 214r: note of possession ‘Di Bart[—]\l\o\mao\ di bernardo giugnj’, followed by a note by a later hand (‘Vochato pero Caba’);
fols. 214v-220r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 220v: erased list of the first lines of the first seven RVF poems beginning with the letter A.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
A sixteenth-century hand wrote ‘Parte Prima Delli Sonetti e Canzoni di mes[ser] Francesco Petrarca’ before RVF 1 (fol. 1r); ‘Parte seconda’ between RVF 263 and 264 (fol. 118v); ‘Parte terza. Trionfo d’Amore cap. p[ri]mo’ before Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 169r); ‘Trionfo del tempo’ before Triumphus Temporis (fol. 208r); and ‘Trionfo della divinità’ before Triumphus Eternitatis (fol. 211r).
Occasional marginal annotations by a later hand indicate the metrical form of the poems (e.g., ‘ballata’ and ‘canzone’).
Decorated initial for RVF 1 (fol. 1r); at fol. 1r is an architectural frame with a coat of arms within a wreath at the bottom of the fol.
CPR, 69; Datati, V, 131