Overview
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France
RVF, Triumphi + Triumphus Fame Ia
Description
283x185 mm; 182 fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
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fols. 1r-99r: RVF 1-263;
fol. 99v: blank;
fols. 100r-141r: RVF 264-366;
fol. 141v: blank;
fols. 142r-182r: Triumphi (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. 182v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems by a later sixteenth-century hand (only the first thirty-one poems beginning with ‘A’ have been listed).
Material Copy
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 1r), RVF 264 (fol. 100r), and the beginning of each Triumphus (fols. 142r, 155r, 159r, 169r, 177r, and 180r); at fol. 1r is an architectural frame with four medallions and a coat of arms at the bottom of the fol.; a few maniculae.
At the top of fol. 1r there is an ex libris note (‘Ex Bibliotheca S[anc]ti Uictoris’).
Marsand, I, 748-49 (n° 658); Pellegrin 1966, 177-78 (= II, 355-56)