[Triumphi and selection of RVF poems – with index]

188x113 mm; II + 179 fols.

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

<inc> Qui cominza latauola p[er] ordine di alphabeto di triumphi e ca[n]tion morale

fol. 1: missing;
 
fols. 2r-4v: alphabetical index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi and the canzoni of RVF (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Qui cominza latauola p[er] ordine di alphabeto di triumphi e ca[n]tion morale’);
 
fols. 5r-14r: alphabetical index of the first lines of the sonnets of RVF (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Qui cominza la tauola disoneti posti p[er] ordine di Alphabeto’);
 
fol. 14v: RVF 172, ‘Oinuidia nimicha di uirtute’ by a later hand;
 
fols. 15-16: missing;
 
fol. 17r: Feliciano’s motto by a later hand, ‘Thomas de uilla lucida. Felicitas lucida costantinus’;
 
fol. 17v: title page (‘Triumphi clariss\i\[mi] poete d[omini] Francisci Petrarce’);
 
fols. 18r-67v: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 67v: colophon: Explicit libellus de Triumphis. Qui finesse li triumphi & comincia Alchune de le cantione dil predito poeta;
 
fol. 68r: title (‘Come miser francisco petrarca fece acitare il dio di amore Auanti ala iustitia’;
 
fols. 68r-85v: Petrarch’s nine canzoni (RVF 360, 105, 80, 30, 66, 323, 50, 331, and 119);
 
fol. 85v: colophon: finis;
 
fol. 86r: title (‘Qui cominciano Elfior deli Soneti del d[et]to poeta’);
 
fols. 86r-96v: Petrarch’s thirty-three sonnets (RVF 303, 288, 294, 265, 75, 100, 101, 58, 56, 213, 162, 31, 346, 285, 298, 266, 38, 45, 46, 219, 176, 349, 347, 39, 161, 230, 154, 261, 164, 168, 183, 226, and 238);
 
fol. 96v: colophon: finis;
 
fol. 161r: title (‘Laureati poete domini francisci petrarce pro domina Laura’);
 
fols. 161r-164r: Pseudo-Petrarch’s terza rima poem ‘Una donna che più legiadra in terra’;
 
fol. 164r colophon: finis;
 
 

Other contents:
 
fols. 97r-160v: several poems (mainly sonnets, but also canzoni and capitoli) by many authors (including Dante, Pseudo-Dante, Antonio da Ferrara, Simone Serdini da Siena, Jacopo Sanguinacci, Giusto de’ Conti). For a detailed list of first lines and authors, see Zamponi 1984, 58-61;
 
fols. 164v178r: several poems (mainly sonnets, but also some canzoni) by Fazio degli Uberti and Giovanni Antonio Romanello. For a detailed list of first lines, see Zamponi 1984, 61-63;
 
fol. 178r: colophon: Vulgarium finale seu expedition totius opusculi. Felicitas augusta;
 
fol. 178v: sonnet ‘Gloria q[on]forto [sic] eben senza misura’ by a later hand; this fol. is followed by two unnumbered fols.;
 
fol. 179r: scattered words by a later hand followed by RVF 246 by a different humanistic hand;
 
fol. 179v: a motto (‘Respice finem. HVMI’) followed by Francesco Philippi de’ Ancona’s sonnet ‘Da qual angel gentil natura tolse’ by a later hand; inner-part of end board: Francesco Philippi de Ancona’s sonnet ‘Lassiato hacypri suo lalma Cupido’.