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[Triumphi and selection of RVF poems]

Overview

Current Location

Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Canonici Ital. 80
Creator
Date
1431
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF 23, 28, 37, 72, 105, 119, 128, 264, 270, 325, 360, and 366, Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

215x145 mm; I + 72 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; mercantesca (two hands: hand 1 wrote fols. 1-43; hand 2 fols. 44-72); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts; one architectural frame, historiated and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> La notte ch[e] seguj loribil chaso

Internal Description

fols. 1r-43r: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-147, Amoris II.178-187, Amoris I.1-39, Fame Ia.148-163, Amoris II.1-33, Amoris II.82-177, Amoris I.40-160, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 43r: colophon: finis adi 29 lujo a M iiijc xxx j in Va;
 
fol. 43v: blank;
 
fol. 44r: short summary of the Triumphi (‘D[o]m[inu]s franciscus petrarcha laureatus poeta hec triumphos edidit’, <inc> Primu[m] uero triumphat i[n] uirtute[m]; <exp> Sexto u[er]o triumphus triumphat fama[m]);
 
fol. 44r: three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (‘Epitaphiu[m] d[omini] f[rancisci] petrarcha ab eo conditu[m]’, <inc> Frigida fra[n]cisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce);
 
fol. 44r: biographical note about Petrarch’s death (‘D[omi]n[u]s f[ranciscus] petrarcha defunctus est an[n]o etatis sue LXX. Anno d[omi]ni MiiicLxxiiij, die viiij julij in uilla uulgarit[er] dicta Arqua distante a Patauina urbe p[er] milliaria .x. inter mo[n]tes Euganeos’);
 
fol. 44v: blank;
 
fols. 45r-72v: twelve canzoni from the RVF (i.e. RVF 23, 28, 37, 72, 105, 119, 128, 264, 270, 325, 360, and 366) (‘Cantinele [sic] d[omini] f[rancisci] p[etrarcae]’).

Material Copy

Location

Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Canonici Ital. 80
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Occasional marginal annotations by the same hand provide missing lines; some maniculae and passages highlighted by vertical strokes close to the end of the lines.
 
Fol. 8 (with Triumphus Amoris II.178-187 and Amoris I.1-39) has been wrongly bound (numeration remains unchanged) and should be placed after fol. 11; a fol. (with Triumphus Amoris II.34-81) is missing (numeration remains unchanged).
 
Historiated initial for Triumphus Mortis II showing Petrarch sitting and holding his cheek against his hand (fol. 1r); decorated initials in gold for the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; at fol. 1r is an architectural frame.

Bibliography

Mann 1975, 413-15; Mortara 1864, 96-97; Pächt and Alexander, II, 47