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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Montagu d. 33
Creator
Date
third quarter of the fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

248x168 mm; II + 174 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame, historiated and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> A pie de colli oue labella uesta

Internal Description

fols. 1r-7r: alphabetical index of the first lines of the sonnets of RVF (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed according to order of appearance);
 
fols. 7v-8v: blank;
 
fols. 9r-136r: RVF and the dispersa ‘Donna mi viene spesso nella mente’ (fol. 48r-48v);
 
fols. 136v-137v: blank;
 
fols. 138r-174r: Triumphi (‘Francisci Petrarce poe[tae] cla[rissimi] de amore incipit triumphus primus feliciter’, 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. 174v: colophon: Francisci Petrarchae poetae cl[arissimi] triumphi expliciunt. Amor mundum. Pudicitia amorem. Mors pudicitiam. Fama mortem. Tempus famam. Aeternitas omnia Vincit.

Material Copy

Location

Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Montagu d. 33
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Historiated initial in gold for RVF 1 showing Petrarch clasping a book to his heart (fol. 1r); decorated initials in gold for the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; at fol. 1r is an architectural frame.

Bibliography

Madan-Hunt, V, 114 (n° 25402); Mann 1975, 462-64; Pächt and Alexander, II, 28