Overview
Biblioteca Capitular
Toledo
Spain
RVF 1-359, Triumphus Amoris I, Amoris II, Amoris III, Amoris IV
Description
212x124 mm; I + 118 + I fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame and historiated initials.
<inc> Sonetti e canzone dello eloqentisimo [sic] poeta messere Franciesco Petrarca di Firenze e laureato nel Capitolio
fols. 1r-107v: RVF 1-359.43 (‘Sonetti e canzone dello eloqentisimo [sic] poeta messere Franciesco Petrarca di Firenze e laureato nel Capitolio’);
fols. 108r-117v: Triumphi (‘Cominciano etriomphi dello illustre poeta messer francesco petrarcha di firenze feliciter’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV.1-51);
fol. 118r-118v: partial alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet [F-I], poems are listed in order of appearance).
Material Copy
Biblioteca Capitular
Toledo
Spain
After fols. 107, 117, and 118 several fols. (with the final section of RVF poems, the other capitoli of the Triumphi, and the other parts of the index of the first lines of RVF poems, respectively) are missing.
Historiated initials in gold for RVF 1 showing a half-bust portrait of Petrarch (fol. 1r) and Triumphus Amoris I showing a blind cupid (fol. 108r); at fol. 1r is an architectural frame.
Cat.Toledo 1903-1906, I, 148; Villar 1995