[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Vat. Lat. 5154
Creator
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

198x120 mm; II + 183 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

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

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Incomincia latauola de sonetti et canzone di messer Francesco petrarca poeta fiorentino

Internal Description

fols. 1r-7r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Incomincia latauola de sonetti et canzone di messer Francesco petrarca poeta fiorentino’);
 
fol. 7r: colophon: finita latauola de Sonetti & canzone dimesser francesco petrarca poeta fiorentino;
 
fol. 7v: blank;
 
fols. 8r-147r: RVF 4-366;
 
fol. 147r: Finiscono lecanzone et sonetti dimesser Francesco Petrarca poeta fiorentino. Finis;
 
fol. 147v: blank;
 
fols. 148r-183v: 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. 183v: colophon: finis.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Vat. Lat. 5154
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Occasional marginal annotations by the same hand either provide some missing words (or lines), or give variant readings.
 
Decorated initials in gold for every first capitolo of the Triumphi (fols. 148r, 160r, 163r, 172r, 179r, and 181v); at fol. 148r is an architectural frame.
 
A fol. (with RVF 1-3) has been lost before the page numbering was added.

Online References
Bibliography

Vattasso 1909, 55-56
 
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Guerrini Ferri 1986, 173; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 182 and 211

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