Overview
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
196x149 mm; IX + 188 fols.
parchment; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; decorated initials.
Tabula presentis operis
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
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
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.
Vattasso 1909, 137-38
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Mezzanotte 1984, 214-15