Overview
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
248x168 mm; II + 174 + II fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame, historiated and decorated initials.
<inc> A pie de colli oue labella uesta
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
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
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.
Madan-Hunt, V, 114 (n° 25402); Mann 1975, 462-64; Pächt and Alexander, II, 28