Overview
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
220x142 mm; I+ 184 fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; four architectural frames and decorated initials.
<inc> Incomincia la tauola de sonetti & canzone dimesser Francesco petrarcha poeta florentino
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
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
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.
Vattasso 1909, 110-12
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Guerrini Ferri 1986, 172; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 181 and 210