Overview
Biblioteca Trivulziana
Milan
Italy
RVF, Triumphi
Description
162x106 mm; I + 157 + I fols.
parchment; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one rectangular-box illumination.
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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-19v: RVF 1-28.101;
fols. 20r-89v: RVF 50.74-239.29;
fols. 90r-129v: RVF 264.99-366 with the addition of dispersa ‘Donna miuiene spesso nella mente’ at fol. 113r;
fols. 130r-157v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I.45-160, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV.1-138, Mortis I.74-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia.29-163, Fame II.96-153, Fame I.103-130, Fame Ia.1-28, Fame II.154-163, Fame III.1-104, Temporis, Eternitatis 16-73).
Material Copy
Biblioteca Trivulziana
Milan
Italy
The sequence of RVF is incomplete due to the loss of several fols. after fols. 19 and 89. The order of capitoli in the Triumphi has been heavily disrupted by the binding process and the likely removal of illuminated fols. after fols. 129, 140, 145, 154, 156, 157 at the beginning of each capitolo of the Triumphi. According to Brambilla (in Petrella 2006, 36), the authentic order of the Triumphi was Triumphus Amoris I-IV, Mortis I-II, Fame I, Ia, II-III, Temporis Eternitatis.
At fol. 8r is a rich architectural frame with a series of small medallions representing Nero, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Trajan, Julius Caesar; in the right and in the left margins are a unicorn and a hunting scene (with a dog biting a fawn) respectively. At the bottom of the fol., between Trajan’s and Caesar’s medallions, is the coat of arms of the Visconti family. Within the architectural frame is a rectangular-box illumination in which a young Laura crowns an elderly, bearded Petrarch; in the background are two turreted cities.
Petrella 2006, 33-36; P.MI 1904, 319-21; Porro 1884, 341; Santoro 1965, 229-30.
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D’Ancona 1914, II, (n° 654); Guerrini Ferri 1986a, 169; Quattrini 2002, 22-23; Wilkins 1951, 232