Overview
Biblioteca Trivulziana
Milan
Italy
RVF, Triumphi
Description
174x108 mm; I + 185 + I fols.
parchment; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; historiated initials.
JL PETRARCA
fol. Iv: title page;
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);
fol. 8r-8v: blank;
fols. 9r-106v: RVF 1-263 (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCE POETAE CLARISSIMI SONECTORVM ET CANTILENARVM LIBER FOELICITER INCIPIT’);
fol. 106v: colophon: FINIS VITE VETERIS;
fols 106v-148r: RVF 264-366 with the addition of dispersa ‘Donna miuiene spesso nella mente’ at fol. 145v;
fol. 148r: colophon: τελως;
fols. 149r-185r: Triumphi (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCE TRIV[M]PHORUM LIBER INCIPIT. TRIVMPHUS AMORIS’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 185r: colophon: τελως;
fol. 185v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Trivulziana
Milan
Italy
Fols. 9r and 149r have decorative borders composed of floral decorations and historiated initials, representing a laurel-crowned Petrarch holding a book and a Cupid shooting an arrow respectively.
P.MI 1904, 321-22; Porro 1884; Petrella 2006, 19-22
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D’Ancona 1914, II, (n° 654); Guerrini Ferri 1986a, 169; Santoro 1965, 230-31; Wilkins 1951, 232, 248, 251