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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Ott. Lat. 1219
Creator
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

220x142 mm; I+ 184 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; four architectural frames and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Incomincia la tauola de sonetti & canzone dimesser Francesco petrarcha poeta florentino

Internal Description

fol. Ir: bibliographical note (‘Il Petrarca Sonetti, e Canzoni’) and scattered words by two later hands;
 
fol. Iv: one capital letter by a later hand;
 
fols. 1r-7r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Incomincia la tauola de sonetti & canzone dimesser Francesco petrarcha poeta florentino’);
 
fol. 7v: note of possession by a later hand (‘Marij Maffej Volaterranj’);
 
fol. 7 followed by a blank unnumbered fol.;
 
fols. 8r-146v: RVF 4-366;
 
fol. 146v: colophon: finis;
 
fols. 147r-182r: Triumphi (except Triumphus Amoris I.1-51) (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 182r: colophon: finis;
 
fols. 182v-184r: blank;
 
fol. 184v: a medical receipt in Latin (‘Ad carcinomata medicame[n] oportunu[m]’) by a different hand.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Ott. Lat. 1219
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Decorated initials in gold for Triumphus Pudicitie (fol. 158r), Fame I (fol. 170v), Temporis (fol. 177v), and Eternitatis (fol. 180r); all fols. with decorations have an architectural frame.
 
Two fols. (one with RVF 1-3 and one with Triumphus Amoris I.1-51) have been lost; the former has been substituted with a blank unnumbered fol. after fol. 7.

Bibliography

Vattasso 1909, 110-12
 
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Guerrini Ferri 1986, 172; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 181 and 210