Overview
Exeter College
Oxford
United Kingdom
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
223x140 mm; I + 180 + I fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
<inc> Francisci Petrarcae poetae clarissimi carmen rithimonos elegicum in Lauram feliciter incipit
fols. 1r-99r: RVF 1-263 (‘Francisci Petrarcae poetae clarissimi carmen rithimonos elegicum in Lauram feliciter incipit’);
fols. 199v-140vv: RVF 264-366 (‘Que sequuntur post mortem domine Lauree scripta sunt. Ita enim proprio codice domini francisci annotatum est. Et charte quatuor pretermisse uacuae’);
fol. 140v: colophon: Deo gratias;
fols. 141r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Scriptum manu propria domini f[rancisci] P[etrarce] in quodam eius virgilio uisum est’, <inc> Laura proprijs uirtutibus illustris & meis longum celebrata carminibus; <exp> inspectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti’);
fol. 141r: colophon: finis;
fols. 141v-142v: blank;
fols. 143r-180v: Triumphi (‘Amor. D[omini] Francisci Petrarcae poetae laureati Triumphi sex incipit & primo primum quod de amore inscribitur’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis Ia, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 180v: colophon: finis. Sit laus christo omnipotenti deo.
Material Copy
Exeter College
Oxford
United Kingdom
At fol. 63r-63v, RVF 136-138 had been erased, but the erasures have later washed away (though they are still partially visible).
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 1r), RVF 267 (fol. 99v), and for the beginning of each Triumphus (fols. 143r, 155v, 159r, 168v, 175v, and 178r); at fol. 1r is an architectural frame with a coat of arms (erased) at the bottom of the fol; there is a running header for each RVF poem.
Mann 1975, 505-07; Watson 2000, 122-24