Overview
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Madrid
Spain
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
244x158 mm; I + 181 + I fols.
parchment; humanistic script (two hands: hand A wrote fols. 1-24, 31-37, 94, 112, 115, and 168-176; hand B the other ones); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; historiated and decorated initials.
<inc> Incominciano li Sonetti Cançone & Trionfi di M[esser] F[rancesco] Petrarca
fol. Ir: old shelfmark by a later hand;
fol. Iv: blank;
fols. 1r-37v: Triumphi (‘Incominciano li Sonetti Cançone & Trionfi di M[esser] F[rancesco] Petrarca. Trionfo d’Amore cap[itolo] primo’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia+Mortis I.4-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 37v: colophon: Finiscono li triomphi del eximio poeta fiorentino M[esser] F[rancesco] Petrarca deo semper gratias;
fols. 37r-94v: ballads, canzoni, sestine, and madrigals from RVF (‘Cominciano le ballate, & canzone del poeta fiorentino deo semper feliciter’);
fol. 94v: colophon: Finiscono le cançone & ballate del chiarissimo poeta fiorentino M[esser] F[rancesco] petrarca deo semper gratias’;
fols. 94v-175v: all sonnets from RVF (‘cominciano appresso i suoi sonetti feliciter’);
fol. 175v: colophon: Finis. Fine de i Sonetti di M[esser] Petrarca;
fols. 176r-181r: alphabetical index of the first lines of the RVF sonnets only (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed according to order of appearance) (‘Tauola de sonecti che si contengono in questo libro’);
fol. 181r: colophon: Finis;
fol. 181v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Madrid
Spain
Historiated initial in gold for Triumphus Fame I showing the representation of the triumph itself (fol. 25v); decorated initials in gold for the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo (except Triumphus Fame I); blue-coloured initials for all RVF poems.
Domínguez Bordona 1933, I, 292 (n. 685); Villar 1995, 170-72