Overview
British Library
London
United Kingdom
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
158x87 mm; IV + 188 + XII fols.
parchment; small humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; two architectural frames, historiated and decorated initials.
<inc> TABVLA TOTIVS OPERIS
fols. 1r-7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Tabula totius operis’);
fols. 8r-9r: alphabetical index of the first lines of Dante’s poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Tabula Dantis’);
fol. 9v: blank (followed by an unnumbered blank fol.);
fols. 10r-108r: RVF 1-263 (‘Francisci Petrarcae poetae elegantissimi carminum etruscorum liber’);
fols. 108v-150r: RVF 264-366 (‘Franc[isci] Petr[arcae] De morte Laurae’);
fol. 150v: blank;
fols. 151r-187v: Triumphi (‘Francisci Petrarcae poetae Triumphorum liber. Triumphus I Amoris’, 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.1-85).
Material Copy
British Library
London
United Kingdom
Triumphus Eternitatis abruptly ends with l. 85. The catchword correctly gives ‘Beatissima’, the first word of l. 86. Several quires must be missing at the end of the manuscript because the index mentions that Dante’s poems follow the Triumphi, but no such compositions are present.
Historiated initials for RVF 1 showing a blue-robed Petrarch (fol. 10r) and Triumphus Amoris I showing Petrarch holding a book (fol. 151r); decorated initials in gold for all other RVF poems and every other capitolo of the Triumphi; at fols. 10r and 151r is an architectural frame with the coat of arms of the Medici family at the bottom of the fol.
Additions 1846-47, 386; Iter, IV, 141b; Mann 1975, 257-59
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D’Ancona 1914, II, 652-53