Overview
Biblioteca Statale
Lucca
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
235x154 mm; II + 200 + II fols.
paper; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; decorated initials.
<inc> A pie decolli oue labella uesta
fols. 1r-8r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 8v: blank;
fols. 9r-158r: RVF;
fol. 158r: colophon: Scriptus per me Michaelem Nicolaj de vulterris. DeoGratias. Amen.;
fol. 158v: blank;
fols. 159r-20r: Triumphi (‘F[rancisci] Petrarche Triumphus Amoris feliciter incipit’, 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. 200r: colophon: F[rancisci] Petrarche Cantilenarum pariter et Triumphorum liber explicit;
fol. 200v: a note by a different humanistic hand (‘Petrarca belisima inamorata | pesanti padre ma quando fuse | furato ina morata spesoamen | Si questo libro’).
Material Copy
Biblioteca Statale
Lucca
Italy
Occasional marginal annotations by the same hand either add a few missing lines or correct some words. Further annotations by the same hand comment on two poems (i.e. RVF 145 at fol. 79r and RVF 206.28-35 and 206.54-58 at fols. 89v-90r). In the first case, the note focuses on the Horatian model on which Petrarch based his sonnet; in the second and third ones, it offers a paraphrase.
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 9r) and Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 159r); there is a running header for each RVF poem.
At fols. 76r-77r, RVF 136-138 have been crossed out by pen.
CPR, 112 (with reference to old shelfmark: 1267); Ms.LU, I.2, 2v