Overview
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
RVF, Triumphi
Description
226x144 mm; I + 272 + I fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; ten rectangular-box illuminations; one architectural frame; decorated initials.
<inc> Francesco petrarca firentino [sic] per natione
fols. 1r-7r: [Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Francesco petrarca firentino [sic] per natione nacque nellanno di questa ultima etade del n[ost]ro signor iesu chïsto [sic] M ccc iiii; <exp> Queste cose di se stesso francesco petrarca ala posteritate ha riferito el quale diche ingiegno fusse lop[er]e sue il dimostrano che da noi fedelm[en]te int[er]pretate sono);
fol. 7v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> Laura prop[r]is uirtutib[us] illustris et meis lo[n]gum celebrata carminib[us]; <exp> inexpectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
fols. 8r-12v: alphabetical index of the first lines of the first part of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 12v-14r: alphabetical index of the first lines of the second part of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 14v-15r: alphabetical index of the first lines of [Simone Serdini’s] poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 15v-16v: alphabetical index of the first lines of [Malatesta Malatesti’s] poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 17r-115r: RVF 1-263;
fols. 115v-156r: RVF 264-366;
fols. 156v: blank;
fols. 157r-196v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
Other contents:
fols. 197r-242v: thirty-nine poems by [Simone Serdini]; this section also includes one sonnet by [Pandolfo Malatesti] (fol. 211r), and two sonnets by [Malatesta Malatesti] (fols. 211r, 218r-218v);
fols. 243r-270r: sixty-seven poems by [Malatesta Malatesti];
fols. 270v-272v: blank. For a full list of the first lines of the poems, see Vattasso 1909, 143-47.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
Fols. 157r-160r: a few Latin annotations (presumably by another hand of the same century) for Triumphus Amoris I. These notes provide information on named mythological and historical figures.
Two rectangular-box illuminations open the first and second section of the RVF (at fols. 17r and fol. 115r respectively). The former is inscribed in a floral architectural frame and shows Laura in the act of placing a laurel wreath upon Petrarch’s head; the latter shows Petrarch praying before Laura’s grave. At the bottom of fol. 17r is the Sforza family coat of arms. Each capitolo of the Triumphi is preceded by a rectangular-box illumination: Amoris (fol. 157r), Pudicitie (fol. 166v), Mortis (fol. 170v), Fame (fol. 177r), Temporis (fol. 191r): Eternitatis (fol. 194r); few maniculae. Additional rectangular-box illuminations open the sections of Serdini and Malatesti’s poems: at fol. 197r is rectangular-box illumination showing a hunting scene; at fol. 243r is a rectangular-box illumination showing the poet Malatesta Malatesti receiving a gift from a female figure (likely a personification of Fame); on right section of the illumination is the coat of arms of the Malatesti family.
Vattasso 1909, 143-47
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Cavedon 2007, 225 (n. 14); Guerrini Ferri 1986, 172, 176; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 181, 199, 210; Maddalo 2004, 250-51; Malke 1977, 244; Mezzanotte 1984, 218; Nicolini 2010, 18; Nicolini 2001, 304-5; Stefani 1985, 880; Trapp 2001, 71, 90, 116, 152, 168.