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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

British Library
London
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Stowe 954
Creator
Date
mid-fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

230x170 mm; I + 184 + 31 (numbered as 185-187) + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment (except fols. 11-31 in paper); humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> A Pie de colli ue la bella uesta (fol. 2r)

Internal Description

fol. 1r-1v: three poems by three different fifteenth- or sixteenth-century hands;
 
fols. 2r-8v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed according to order of appearance);
 
fols. 9r-110r: RVF 1-266 (‘Incipiunt lamentationes domini francisci petrarce de Amore domine Laure’);
 
fols. 110v-149r: RVF 267-366 (‘Hactenus lamentationes de amore Laure deinceps de morte eiusdem’);
 
fol. 149r: colophon: Amen. finiunt lamentationes domini francisci petrarce de Amore et morte domine Laure. Sequitur de sex triumphis eiusdem petrarce: deo gratias;
 
fol. 149v: blank;
 
fols. 150r-183r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia.1-21+Mortis I.3-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-22+first half of Fame Ia.23+second half of Fame I.23+Fame I.24-130, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 183r: colophon: Finis sex triumphorum petrarce poeta;
 
fol. 183v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> Laura propriis uirtutibus illustris et meis longu[m] celebrata carminibus; <exp> in expectatos exitus acriter ac viriliter cogitanti);
 
fol. 184r: nine lines in Latin by a different hand (<inc> Illa rapit iuuenes. Prima florenta iuuenta; <exp> dele iniquitatem meam amen);
 
fol. 184v: a date (‘ij julij mcccclx’) and a sonnet, both by a different hand (‘Che uol dir questo insolito favore’); below which are some other sentences and words by different hands;
 
fol. 11r (= 185r): transcription of the first ten lines of the first poem of fol. 1r by an eighteenth-century hand (a semi-Latin sonnet, ‘Modum et formam ne soi humani gesti’);
 
fol. 11v (= 185v): blank;
 
fol. 11 is followed by an unnumbered blank fol. (bound with fol. 11);
 
fol. 21r(=186r)-21v(=186v): transcription of Petrarch’s note on Laura by an eighteenth-century hand;
 
fol. 31r (=187r): transcription of the sonnet at fol. 184v by an eighteenth-century hand; below which are some scattered words by a different hand;
 
fol. 31v (=187v): blank.

Material Copy

Location

British Library
London
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Stowe 954
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

In the fols. with RVF poems, occasional marginal annotations by the same hand either point out names of characters mentioned in the poems, or add some missing words, or else give variant readings; other occasional marginal annotations by at least two different hands either give variant readings, or (once) transcribe a sonnet modelled on one by Petrarch (i.e. next to RVF 102 is a note [‘Nicolaus salinbeni’] and a sonnet [‘Cesare poi chel falso traditore’], fol. 51r); a few maniculae. In the fols. with the Triumphi, scattered marginal annotations by the same hand (as that of the annotator of the RVF) point out the names of the characters mentioned in the text; other occasional marginal annotations by at least two different hands add a few missing words or lines; a few maniculae.
 
RVF 137-138 (but not 136) are crossed out by pen but still legible (fol. 71r-71v).
 
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 9r) and Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 150r); at the bottom of fol. 9r is a rectangular decoration with an erased coat of arms at its centre.
 
Fols. 11-31 (= 185-187) were detached paper fols., bound in the ms.

Bibliography

Mann 1975, 325-28; Stowe Mss 1895, I, 637-38