[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Riccardiana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Ricc. 1124
Creator
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia, Mortis Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

220x145 mm; I + 195 (numbered 1-1941) + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame; decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> A pie decollj oue labella vesta

Internal Description

fol. Ir: title page penned by a later hand: ‘Canzoniere e Trionfi del Petrarca’;
 
fol. Iv: blank;
 
fols. 1r-8v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed according to their order of appearance);
 
fols. 9r-10v: blank;
 
fols. 11r-112v: RVF 1-266 with additional dispersa ‘Donna miuiene spesso nellamente’ at fol. 61v;
 
fols. 112v-151v: RVF 267-366;
 
fol. 151v: colophon: LAVS DEO;
 
fol. 152r-152v: blank;
 
fols. 153r-193r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Castitatis, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 193r: colophon: DEO GRATIAS AMEN;
 
fols. 193v-1941v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Riccardiana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Ricc. 1124
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

At fol. 179r: two annotations by a later hand comment on historical figures: ‘il granchartaginese: annibale’; ‘ilre Philippo: padre dalexandro’.
 
Fol. 11r has a white vine-stem decorated architectural frame with a coat of arms at the bottom of the fol. representing the claws of two grey lions; decorated initials for RVF 1-2 at fol. 11r. Decorated initials in gold with decorated borders for RVF 267 (fol. 112v) and Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 153r).
 
Fol. 194 has been counted twice: 194 and 1941.

Bibliography

CPR, 100-01; Datati, III, 15; Ms. Ricc, 158-59; Ms.Ricc 2, 26

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