Overview
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
RVF and Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
220x138 mm; II + 188 + II fols.
parchment; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; two architectural frames, historiated and decorated initials.
<inc> Voi ch’ascoltate inrime sparse ilsuono
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
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
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.
Mann 1975, 410-11; Mortara 1864, 95-96; Pächt and Alexander, II, 29