Overview
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
RVF, Triumphi
Description
290x200 mm; VII + 141 + VI fols.
paper; two main humanistic scripts; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.
<inc> Aseguitar questeychen [sic] fuga e uolta
fols. 1r: title page penned by an eighteenth-century hand: ‘SONETTI | E Canzoni | DI M[ESSER] FRANCESCO | PETRARCA |L’Indice di tutte l’Opere stà | nell’vltimo’;
fol. 1v: blank;
fols. 2r-71r: RVF 6.2-263;
fol. 71r: colophon: finit uita amoris;
fol. 71v: blank;
fols. 72r-104v: RVF 264-366;
fol. 104v: colophon: EXplicit liber. F[ranceschi] P[etrarce] L[aureati] poete Rer[u]m v[e]l vulgar[iu]m fragm[ent]a. Diis gratias agimus immortalibus qui hoc nobis munus p[re]stiterunt;
fol. 105r-105v: blank;
fols. 106r-134v: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie 1-95 (followed by three unidentified lines), Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II.1-111 + Fame III.22-120, Temporis, Eternitatis 1-42 + Fame II.115-161, Fame III.1-21, Eternitatis 43-145);
fol. 134v: colophon: DEO GRATIAS Laureati franceschi petrarçe poete Triu[m]phi expliciunt;
fol. 135r: scattered words at the top of the fol. ‘Amorte in petriosa’;
fol. 135v: blank;
fols. 136r-141v: index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Indice di tutti li Sonetti e Rime del Petrarcha che sono in questo libro’);
fol. 141v: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
fol. 141v: colophon: Deo gratias Amen.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
At the top of fol. 2r some illegibile words in a cursive hand. Fol. 83v: brief note by another likely contemporary hand on RVF 308: ‘Sorga fiume de la fra[n]cia i[n]germania Arni [sic] fiume d[i] fiorenza’.
At fol. 44r-44v RVF 136-138 have been crossed out by pen; next to the first line of RVF 136, a cursive hand wrote the incipit of the same sonnet. Equally, in the index of the poems at fol. 138r, the first lines of RVF 136-138 have been crossed out by pen.
Fol. 141v: note of possession penned in another hand: ‘Liber meij Antonii m.ri augustini demartiis’; some maniculae
A fol. containing RVF 1-6.1 is missing.
Narducci 1874, 19; Pellegrin 1976, 89-9
***
Guerrini Ferri 2006, 181, 203, 210