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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Trivulziana
Milan
Italy

Shelfmark
Triv. 904
Creator
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi

Description

Physical Description: Format

174x108 mm; I + 185 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; historiated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

JL PETRARCA

Internal Description

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

Location

Biblioteca Trivulziana
Milan
Italy

Shelfmark
Triv. 904
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

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.

Bibliography

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