Overview
British Library
London
United Kingdom
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
260x170 mm; 6* + 179 fols.
parchment; round humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
<inc> A pie decolli oue la bella uesta
fols. 1*r-6*v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 1r-142v: RVF;
fols. 143r-179v: Triumphi (‘El libro detriomphy d [sic] messere franc[esc]o p[etrarca] Tryompho primo dellamore’, 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. 179v: colophon: Finito ellibro detriomphi di mess[er] francesco p[etrarca] poeta fiorentino Deo gratias Amen expliciunt.
Material Copy
British Library
London
United Kingdom
Occasional interlinear annotations by the same hand add a few missing words; one marginal annotation by a different hand (‘uolra amore’) is written next to Triumphus Fame II.87 (fol. 171r).
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 1r) and the beginning of each Triumphus (Amoris I [fol. 143r], Pudicitie [fol. 155r], Mortis I [fol. 158v], Fame I [fol. 167v], Temporis [fol. 174v], and Eternitatis [fol. 177r]); at fol. 1r is an architectural frame with an erased coat of arms, at the bottom of the fol.
Harl. Mss 1808, III, 212; Iter, IV, 170a; Mann 1975, 305-06