Overview
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France
RVF, Triumphi + Triumphus Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
209x137 mm; I + 195 + II fols.
paper (except fols. 1, 10, 153, and 164 in parchment); cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
<inc> Francisci petrarce poete clarissimi Sonetti et Cançionii Liber incipit feliciter
fols. 1r-145v: RVF (‘Francisci petrarce poete clarissimi Sonetti et Cançionii Liber incipit feliciter’);
fol. 145v: colophon: Finis;
fols. 146r-152v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 152v: colophon: Finit tabula rithmor[um] clarissimi poete francisci petrarce;
fols. 153r-193r: Triumphi (‘Francisci petrarce poetae clarissimi triumphor[um] sex. Triumphus primus de amore feliciter incipit’, 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. 193r: colophon: Finiunt triumphi Francisci petrarce;
fols. 193v-195v: blank.
Material Copy
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France
Scattered marginal annotations either give variant readings by a different hand, or state the names of characters mentioned in the capitoli of the Triumphi by the same hand.
Decorated initials for RVF 1 (fol. 1r) and the beginning of each Triumphus (fols. 153r, 166r, 170r, 180r, 187v, and 190v); at fol. 1r is an architectural frame with a coat of arms at the bottom of the fol.
A microfilm (MF 12737) was used to create this entry.
Marsand, II, 145 (n° 818); Pellegrin 1966, 175-77 (= II, 353-55)