Overview
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
247x155 mm; I + 121 + 180 + I fols.
parchment; semi-cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts.
<inc> A qualunque animal [⎯]
fol. 11r: two notes of possession (‘Codex Bernardi Salerni’ and ‘Hieronymi Scalphielli’) by two different sixteenth-century hands and a few scattered words by two sixteenth-century hands;
fol. 11v: blank;
fols. 21r-81v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 81v-91r: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
fol. 91r-91v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> Laura proprijs uirtutib[u]s illustris & meis longum celebrata carminib[u]s; <exp> in expectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
fols. 91v-121v: [Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Francesco petrarcha huomo di grande ingiegno & no[n] di meno uirtu naq[ue] in arezzo nel borgo de lorto; <exp> quando il petrarcha morì era il bocacio de minore etate di lui de an[n]i 9 & cossi p[er]successio[n]e andorono le muse);
fol. 1r: title (‘Soneto primo’), followed by RVF 1.1;
fol. 1v: blank;
fols. 1v-98v: RVF 4-263;
fols. 99r-140r: RVF 264-366;
fol. 140v: blank;
fols. 140r-179v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 179v: colophon: finis;
fol. 180r: a two-line quotation from Triumphus Eternitatis by a later sixteenth-century hand;
fol. 180v: blank.
Material Copy
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
Fol. 10 (where presumably RVF 23.164-169, 24, 25, 26 and 27.1-6 were copied) is missing.
The upper part of fol. 2 has been cut out, as well as the upper part of fols. 99, 141, 153, 157, 167, 174, and 177 (where the initials for RVF 264, Triumphus Amoris I, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Temporis, and Eternitatis were placed); some maniculae.
Mann 1975, 391-94; Mortara 1864, 86-87