[RVF and Triumphi with Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s life of Petrarch]

215x122 mm; VI + 187+ IV fols.

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; two rectangular-box illuminations, two architectural frames, and decorated initials.

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fols. Ir-IVv: blank;
 
fol. Vr: decoration with a stem representing two rampant lions facing each other, underneath the decoration a scroll with the words ‘Benedetto sia el giorno el mese e lanno’ [RVF 61.1];
 
fol. Vv: blank;
 
fol. VIr-Viv: blank, covered with purple ink;
 
fol. 1r: rectangular-box illumination with a laurel-crowned poet sitting under a tree and playing the violin in a bucolic landscape with a city in the distance; below which is RVF 1, at the bottom of the fol. the coat of arms of the Pasqualigo family on a rectangle background representing the country surroundings of a fortified city;
 
fols. 1v-141r: RVF 2-366;
 
fol. 141r: colophon: finis;
 
fol. 141v: blank;
 
fol. 142r: rectangular-box illumination with the Triumphus Amoris, below which is Triumphus Amoris I.1-14, at the bottom of the fol. a round, red medallion with ‘Ogni cosa costui doma ed atera’ on a rectangle background with the country surroundings of a fortified city;
 
fols. 142v-180v: 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. 180v: colophon: finis;
 
fols. 180v-181r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Memorabilia quedam de laura manu propria Francisci petrarce scriptam in quoda[m] codice virgilij in Papiensi biblyoteca reperta’, <inc> Laura proprijs uirtutib[us] illustris: & meis longum celebrate carminibus; <exp> curas superuacuas spes inanes & in expectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fol. 181v: extract from Petrarch’s Latin letter to Giacomo Colonna (Fam. II.9) (‘Fragmentum cuiusdam epistole eiusdem Francisci Petrarce ad Jacobum de Columna lomboriensem ep[iscopu]m’, <inc> Quid ergo ais finxisse me mihi spetiosum Laure; <exp> tibi pallor tibi labor meus notus est);
 
fol. 181v: eight-line Latin poem from Fam. XI.4 (‘Valle locus clausa toto mihi nullus in orbe’);
 
fols. 182r-187r: [Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Petracho figliolo di Pare[n]zo citadino fiorentino disceso dassai antica et honesta famiglia; <exp> uno di sonetti & canzoni & laltro triomphi: Tre libri in uersi cioe Boccolica: & delle epistole ad Barbatum: & laffrica: & septe psalmi penitentiali);
 
fol. 187r: colophon: finis;
 
fol. 187v: blank.