Overview
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
RVF and Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
278x170 mm; III + 8* + 182 + I fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; two architectural frames and decorated initials
<inc> A piei [sic] decolli oue labella uesta
fols. Ir-IIIv: shelfmark, title (‘Francesco petrarcha poeta’), and provenance note (‘Hunc librum habui ex Bibliotheca quam Pius 2us Pont[ifex] Max[imus] Sienis fundauit’) by two later different hands;
fols. 1*r-8*r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 8*v: blank;
fols. 1r-141v: RVF;
fol. 141v: colophon: Laus deo et gloriose semper virginis matris sue que pro nobis intercedat;
fols. 142r-175v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia.1-21+Mortis I.4-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-22+first half of Fame Ia.23+second half of Fame I.23+Fame I.24-130, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 175v: colophon: finis. Deo gratias. Amen;
fol. 176r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> Laurea proprijs uirtutib[us] illustris et meis longum celebrata carminib[us]; <exp> in expectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti); followed by a note by a sixteenth-century hand (‘Morte, altro ben’ homai non spero. Pet: Son. 1. in mort. Laurae’);
fol. 176v: colophon: Francisci petrarche uatis insignis carmina & materno sermone preclara poemata. Andreoccij gera[r]di militis senensis: cui ipse polex est p[er]scripta manu \ & uitandi \ indigni ocij et animi oblectandi gratia. 1465. Xij kal[endis] Januarij &c. Laus deo;
fols. 176r-181r: blank;
fol. 181v: note on Petrarch by a different hand (‘Petrarca natione Aretinus’);
fol. 182r: scattered words by a later hand;
fol. 182v: blank.
Material Copy
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
Occasional marginal annotations by the same hand correct some words and provide a few variant readings.
Decorated initials in gold for all RVF poems, the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; at fols. 1r and 142r is an architectural frame; at the bottom of fol. 1r was a coat of arms that has been cut away from the fol.
At the top of fol. 1*r is a motto and a note of possession (‘Vindica te tibi | Kenelme Digby’).
Macray, IX, 142; Mann 1975, 440-42; Pächt and Alexander, II, 34