Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia
Description
194x97 mm; III + 185 + IV fols.
parchment; round humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; two architectural frames, historiated and decorated initials.
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fols. Ir-IIv: blank;
fol. IIIr-IIIv: a few scattered words by a later hand;
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);
fols. 8r: title (‘Francisci Petrarce poetae clarissimi sonectorum et cantilenarum liber foeliciter incipit’);
fols. 8r-105v: RVF 1-263;
fol. 105v: colophon: Finis uite ueteris;
fols. 105v-147r: RVF 264-366;
fol. 147r: colophon: Amen. Finis;
fol. 147v: blank;
fols. 148r-185r: Triumphi (‘Francisci Petrarce triumphorum liber incipit’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 185v: half a line (‘Per tutto il cielo’).
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
Occasional marginal annotations by a later hand give variant readings.
RVF 136-138 are partially crossed out by pen.
Historiated initial for RVF 1 (with a laurel-crowned poet holding a book) (fol. 8r); before every RVF poem, there is a running heather in red ink; decorated initials in gold for each first capitolo of the Triumphi; initials in gold on a coloured square background for the other capitoli of the Triumphi (except for Triumphus Amoris IV); at fols. 8r and fol. 148r is an architectural frame (with floral and geometrical decorations, animals, and medallions with half-length portraits of Renaissance men); at the bottom of fol. 8r is also a coat of arms within a wreath; some maniculae.
At fol. 147r, there is a pen drawing of a human head.
CPR, 57-58; Mazzatinti, XIII, 55
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Trapp 2001; Signorini 2003