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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Canonici Ital. 78
Creator
Date
late-fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF and Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

220x138 mm; II + 188 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

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

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Voi ch’ascoltate inrime sparse ilsuono

Internal Description

fols. 1r-140r: RVF;
 
fol. 140r: colophon: Finis;
 
fol. 140v: blank;
 
fols. 141r-178r: Triumphi (‘Incominciano i Trionfi di M[esser] franc[esc]o petrancha [sic] inlustro poeta fiorentino Trionfo primo cap[itol]o p[rim]o della more’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 178v: colophon: Francisci Petrarche triumphorum liber explicit;
 
fols. 178v-180v: blank;
 
fols. 181r-187v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 187v: colophon: finita;
 
fol. 188r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Franciscus P[etrarca] Vates excell[entissimus] Hec ad accerbam [sic] rei memoriam in cedula ubi continue morabatur conscripsit’, <inc> Laura primis uirtutibus illustris & meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> in expectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogita[n]ti);
 
fol. 188v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Canonici Ital. 78
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Marginal and interlinear annotations by the same hand provide missing words and lines to some RVF poems; other marginal annotations by a later hand provide either variant readings to the Triumphi, or names of the characters mentioned in the capitoli.
 
Historiated initial in gold for RVF 1 showing a half-bust portrait of Petrarch (fol. 1r); decorated initials in gold for the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; at fol. 1r and 141r is an architectural frame.

Bibliography

Mann 1975, 410-11; Mortara 1864, 95-96; Pächt and Alexander, II, 29