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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

British Library
London
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Harley 4857
Creator
Date
mid-fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

260x170 mm; 6* + 179 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

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

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> A pie decolli oue la bella uesta

Internal Description

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

Location

British Library
London
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Harley 4857
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

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.

Bibliography

Harl. Mss 1808, III, 212; Iter, IV, 170a; Mann 1975, 305-06