Overview
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
RVF, Triumphi
Description
250x161 mm; II + 184 fols.
parchment; humanistic script; poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame; decorated initials.
‘INDICE DELLE POESIE DEL PETRARCA’
fols. 1r-7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘INDICE DELLE POESIE DEL PETRARCA’);
fol. 8r-8v: blank;
fols. 9r-106r: RVF 1-263;
fols. 106r-147v: RVF 264-366;
fol. 147v: one dispersa (ballad ‘Donna miuiene spesso nellamente’);
fols. 148r-183v: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 183v: colophon: Explicit deo gratias. Qui scrixit scribat semper cum d[omi]no uiuat. Vivat in celis semp[er] cu[m] d[omi]no felix. MEMENTO MEI;
fol. 184r: scattered words, lines, names;
fol. 184v: eight-line satirical composition ‘Sia maledetto alcu[n] ch[e] se diuerta’; in the upper margin: single line ‘Amor piangea et io cu[n] luj tal uolta’.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
Fol. 9r has an architectural frame with floral decorations and small animals; at the bottom of the fol. there is an erased coat of arms. Initials in gold for RVF 1, 264 and every capitolo of the Triumphi; few maniculae.
At fol. 184r are various proverbs (‘femina nulla bona est: si est bona, no[n] est prefecta [sic], si est p[er]fecta no[n] est probatta [sic]’), partial quotations from literary works (‘che [sic] seruir adio conpurita de core uiue contento e saluato more’ [Feo Belcari’s laude ‘Chi serve a Dio con purità di core’, 1-2]), and two names, possibly indicating notes of possession (‘Jo[uanni] Bartolo mio d[i] Jacomo d[i] luesca [sic]’; ‘Jo[uanni] nicolo uardela’).
Narducci 1874, 18; Pellegrin 1976, 85-86
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Guerrini Ferri 2006, 181, 210