Overview
British Library
London
United Kingdom
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
257x164 mm; II + 195 + II fols.
parchment; round humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
<inc> Tauola de sonetti & canzoni di questo libro (fol. 3r)
fol. 1r: Count Scarnasi’s 1777 letter to Lord Shelburne, to whom the ms. is presented;
fol. 1v: blank;
fol. 2r: blank on which a piece of parchment with the note ‘Del Cauagliere del Cairo’ was pasted;
fol. 2v: blank;
fols. 3r-9r: index of the first lines of RVF poems in order of appearance (‘Tauola de sonetti & canzoni di questo libro’);
fols. 9v: blank;
fols. 10r-113r: RVF 1-267 (‘Incominciano isonetti & canzoni del laureato poeta fiorentino messer Francesco Petrarcha. Sonetto primo’);
fols. 113r-149v: RVF 268-366 (‘Canzona dopo la morte di Madonna Laura’);
fol. 149v: colophon: Finiscono i sonetti & le morali canzoni del laureato fiorentino poeta messer Francesco Petrarcha;
fols. 150r-190v: Triumphi (‘Incomincia el libro de triomphi di mess[er] Francesco Petrarca poeta fior[entino] Trio[n]fo 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. 190v: colophon: Finiscono i triomphi del laureato poeta fiorentino messer Francesco Petrarcha. Sit laus & gratiar[um] actio IH[ES]V XP[IST]O Deo;
fols. 190r-195v: RVF 219, 121, 262, 263, 341, 343, 344, 346, 347, 348, and 360 (which were missing in the previous fols. of the ms.);
fol. 195v: colophon: Finis.
Material Copy
British Library
London
United Kingdom
Occasional marginal and interlinear annotations by a similar hand either add a few missing lines, or provide information on the order of a few RVF poems (e.g., at 48v, close to RVF 80 is the note: ‘Questa canzon se dice deue andare innanzi aquel sonetto che cominzia Io son si stancho el quale he [sic] in la faza dinanzi signato di q[ue]sto signo [a sign]’).
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 10r) and the beginning of each Triumphus (fols. 150r, 163r, 166v, 176v, 184r, and 187r); at fol. 10r is an architectural frame with the coat of arms of the Aragon family at the bottom of the fol.
Fol. 1 is a paper fol. bound in the ms.
For the identification of the copyist of this ms., see Mann 1975, 319, n. 1.
Lansdowne Mss 1819, 182; Iter, IV, 193b; Mann 1975, 317-19