Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
264x167 mm; I + 187 fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; two rectangular-box illuminations, two architectural frames, historiated and decorated initials.
<inc> Repertorium o[mn]ium Petrarce Son[n]ector[um] et ca[n]t[i]l[enarum]
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) (‘Repertorium o[mn]ium Petrarce Son[n]ector[um] et ca[n]t[i]l[enarum]’);
fols. 7v-8v: blank;
fol. 9r: title (‘Francisci Petrarce poetae clarissimi sonector[um] et cantilenarum liber foliciter [sic] incipit’), followed by a rectangular-box illumination (with Apollo chasing Daphne);
fols. 9r-147v: RVF and some disperse (the final poem, i.e. RVF 366, is indicated as poem 405);
fol. 147v: colophon: Difrancescho Petrarcha Poeta Clar[issi]mo finiscono litriumphi [sic] Canzone & Sonecti: Mo CCCCo LXVIII adi .XXIII. diseptembre furono scripti & forniti per mano Dantonio difrancescho di Sinibaldo Ritagliatore;
fol. 148r-148v: blank;
fol. 149r: title (‘Francisci Petrarce poete clarissimi triumphorum liber primus i[n]cipit’), followed by a rectangular-box illumination of Triumphus Amoris;
fols. 149r-186v: 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. 186v: colophon: Francisci Petrarche Triumphorum liber explicit;
fol. 187r-187v: four anonymous sonnets by a different hand (‘Quando mi uien in mente el tempo el giorno’, ‘Soleui gia nel tempo che piu uerde’, ‘Crudel iniqua et scelerata mano’, and ‘Tempo e ben da offerir gia le arme al tempio’).
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy
Historiated initial in gold for Triumphus Amoris I showing a man holding a book (presumably the Triumphi according to Valentinelli, see CPVe, 10) (fol. 149r); decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 9r), the beginning of all the other Triumphi and each subsequent capitolo; at fol. 9r and 149r is an architectural frame.
CPR, 350; CPVe, 9-11