Overview
Biblioteca Estense Universitaria
Modena
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia and Mortis Ia
Description
254x172 mm; I + 127 + I fols.
paper; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; historiated and decorated initials.
<inc> Voi che ascoltate in rime sparse ilsuono
fols. 1r-67v: RVF 1-266;
fol. 67v: colophon: Hacten lamentationes de amore laure. demceps demorte eiusdem;
fols. 68r-93v: RVF 267-366;
fol. 93v: colophon: Finiunt lamentationes Petrarce de amore & morte laure. Sequitur de sex triumphis eiusdem pe[trarcae] cap[itulu]m p[rimu]m;
fols. 94r-117v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia+I.4-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-22+first half of Fame Ia.23+second half of Fame I.23+Fame I.24-130, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 117v: colophon: Finis sex triumphor[um] Petrarce;
fols. 118r-121v: first part of the alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet [A-S], poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 122r-125v: another version of the life of Petrarch by Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo [or possibly by Pier Candido Decembrio, see Mezzanotte 1984] (<inc> Francesco petrarcha fiorentino pernatione nacque nellanno di questa ultima eta dinostro signor yh[es]u xr[ist]o Me cccc iiijo in chalende dagosto adi delune alaurora nella cipta dareço doue elpadre suo in exilio dallapatria propria era cacciato; <exp> purchio ben uiuesse come io parlasse poco mi curarei. Vna uentosa gloria mi parbe [sic] sempre del solo splendore dele parole cercar fama. Queste cose dise stesso francesco petrarcha alla posterita a referite elquale diche ingegno fusse lopere sue eldemostrano che danoi fedelmente interpetrate [sic] sono);
fol. 125v: colophon: finis;
fol. 126r-126v: second part of the alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet [S-Z], poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 126v: Petrarch’s dispersa, ‘Aj lingua ay penna mia che in tante carte’, and [Niccolò Tinucci’s] sonnet ‘Ben puoi leladre luci aterra sparte’;
fol. 127r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> Laurea [sic] proprijs uirtutibus illustris & meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> in expectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
fol. 127r: colophon: Finito elibro chiamato petrarca nelquale sono ccccxviiijo sonetti & xxviiijo cançoni morali & .x. madriali & viiijo sestine & sei triumphi cio e xij Capitoli intutto cccclxxviiijo. scripto dimano dime franceso [sic] digoro massainj dasiena. Cominciato adi ij difebraio MeccccoLij & finite adi vj dimarço anno detto nel cassaro dilucignano diualdichiana disopra. deo grati[a]s. Amen;
fol. 127v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Estense Universitaria
Modena
Italy
Occasional marginal annotations by the same hand either add a few missing words, or write a running number close to each capitolo of the Triumphi, or else invite the readers to learn a passage by heart (e.g., by writing ‘memoria’).
After fol. 41, a fol. (with RVF 135.58-97-138) is missing.
Historiated initials for RVF 267 showing the head of Laura (fol. 68r) and RVF 366 showing the Virgin Mary and Child (fol. 92r); decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 1r), the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo, and life of Petrarch (fols. 122r and 123v); decorated initials for every RVF poem, Petrarch’s dispersa, Tinucci’s sonnet, and Petrarch’s note on Laura.
CPR, 237
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Bartuschat 2007, 179; Mezzanotte 1984