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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
United States

Shelfmark
Archives 4648 Bd. Ms. 23 tiny
Creator
Date
fifteenth century (1450-1460)
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

142x90 mm; I + 226 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; two architectural frames and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Francisci Petrarce Poete L[iber] incipit

Internal Description

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

Location

Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
United States

Shelfmark
Archives 4648 Bd. Ms. 23 tiny
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

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.

Bibliography

Dutschke 1986, 129-30 (n° 45); Ullman 1964, 453 (n° 32)