Overview
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
193x119 mm; II’ + II + 209 fols.
parchment; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; the alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (fols. Ir-IIv) is written in two columns; decorated initials.
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fols. Ir-IIv: partial alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet [from ‘A’ to ‘P’], poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 1r-164r: RVF;
fol. 164r: colophon: am[e]n;
fol. 164v: blank, followed by two unnumbered fols. with four RVF poems (i.e. RVF 106, 194, 196, and 139) that had not been copied in the previous fols., each of these four poems with an explanatory note about its position within the collection;
fols. 165r-209r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 209r: colophon: deo gra[tia]s;
fol. 209v: some scattered Petrarchan lines by a different hand.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
Occasional marginal annotations by a different hand either provide basic paraphrase of the poems (e.g., ‘Cesare poy ch[e]l falso traditore’ close to RVF 102.1), or note a particular passage.
At the top of fol. IIr, a later hand wrote ‘Rime di m[esser] Francesco Petrarca’; at the recto of the second unnumbered fol. after fol. 164, a line by a later hand (‘edi lei gl’occhi, fien caggion ch’io uizio’); at the bottom of fol. 209r, four lines by a later hand (<inc> et que che fa ma[—]me[—]i faro fumal; <exp> loblivio gli aspecli [sic] obscuria acri’).
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 1r) and Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 165r).
Vattasso 1909, 139-40
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Guerrini Ferri 1986, 172; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 210; Pancheri 2008, 67.