Overview
Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
United States
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
142x90 mm; I + 226 + I fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; two architectural frames and decorated initials.
<inc> Francisci Petrarce Poete L[iber] incipit
fols. 1r-170v: RVF (‘Francisci Petrarce Poete L[iber] incipit’);
fols. 171r-216v: 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. 216v: colophon: Finis;
fols. 217r-225r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 225v-226v: alphabetical index of the first lines of the canzoni and sestine of RVF, by a different humanistic hand (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance).
Material Copy
Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
United States
Occasional handwritten annotations by a different humanistic hand either add some missing words or provide variant readings.
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 1r), the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; at fols. 1r and 171r is an architectural frame; at fol. 1r is a coat of arms within a wreath, supported by an angel.
Dutschke 1986, 129-30 (n° 45); Ullman 1964, 453 (n° 32)