Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
210x136 mm; IV + 187 + II fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; two architectural frames, historiated and decorated initials.
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fols. Ir-IIIv: blank;
fol. IVr: scattered words by a later hand;
fol. IVv: note of a librarian (‘VII. Membr. Petrarc. Rime’);
fols. 1r-6v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 7r-8v: blank;
fol. 9r: title (‘Cominciano lecanzone et sonetti del clarissimo messer Francesco Petrarcha poeta laureato’);
fols. 9r-147r: RVF;
fol. 147r: colophon: finis;
fol. 147v: blank;
fol. 148r: title (‘Cominciano etriomphi del clarissimo messer Francesco Petrarcha poeta laureato’);
fols. 148r-184r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 184r: colophon: finis;
fol. 184v-187v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
Occasional marginal annotations by a later hand point out names mentioned in the poems. At fol. 9r, there is a note of possession (‘Di Simone Berti’).
Close to RVF 136-138, there is a cross to signal they should not be read, due to their problematic content.
Historiated initial in gold for RVF 1 showing a brazier and floral decorations (fol. 9r); before every poem is a running header in red ink; decorated initial for Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 148r); at fol. 9r is an architectural frame with acoat of arms within a wreath at the bottom of the fol. (the coat of arms has been erased); at fol. 148r is another architectural frame with floral decorations.
CPR, 56-57; Mazzatinti, XIII, 56