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[RVF and Triumphi with Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s life of Petrarch and index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Barb. Lat. 3649
Creator
Date
sixteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

196x149 mm; IX + 188 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

Tabula presentis operis

Internal Description

fols. Ir-VIIIr: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Tabula presentis operis’);
 
fol. VIIIr: colophon: finis coronat opus;
 
fols. VIIIv-IXr: blank;
 
fol. IXv: a motto ‘sine labore’ by a different hand;
 
fols. 1r-149v: RVF;
 
fol. 149v: colophon: Res est in calce;
 
fols. 141r-178r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia+I.4-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 178r: colophon: Res est i[n] calce;
 
fol. 178v: blank;
 
fols. 179r-183r: [Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Petrarcho figliolo di Parentio citadino fierentino [sic] disceso dassai antiqua et honesta famiglia; <exp> uno de sonetti et canzoni laltro triomphi. Tre libri in versi cio e Bucholica et de le epistole ad Barbatum et laffrica et septi psalmi penitentiali);
 
fol. 183r-183v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> Laura proprijs virtutibus illustris et meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> inexpectatos exitus acriter ac viriliter cogitanti);
 
fol. 184r: eight-line Latin poem from Fam. XI.4 (‘Valle locus clausa toto mihi nullus in orbe’);
 
fols. 184v-188v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Barb. Lat. 3649
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

At the top of fol. Ir, note of possession by a later hand (‘Oliverj Vredi’).
 
RVF 136-138 (fols. 62v-63r) have been crossed out by pen, but are still legible.
 
Initials in gold for every RVF poem and the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo.

Bibliography

Vattasso 1909, 137-38
 
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Mezzanotte 1984, 214-15