Overview
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia, Fame Ia
Description
220x310 mm; III + 67 + II fols.
paper; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems set on both left and right in two columns with two verses per line; decorated initials.
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fols. 1r-3r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 3v-4v: blank;
fols. 5r-37r: RVF 1-263 with additional dispersa ‘Donna miuene spesso nella m[en]te’ at fol. 21r;
fols. 37r-50v: RVF 264-366;
fol. 50v: colophon: Amen. DEO . GRATIAS . AMEN;
fols. 51r-54v: blank;
fols. 55r-66r: 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. 66r: colophon: AMEN. Expliciunt triu[m]phi. D[omi]ni franciscj petrarce Laureati poete florentini. Deo Gratias. Amen;
fols. 66v-67v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 5r) and Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 55r).
Bandini, It, 100-01; BML Mostra, 47; CPR, 16
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Bianchi 1949, 11; Guerrini Ferri 1986a, 165, 176; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 183; Pasquini 1975, 224 (n. 1); Solerti 1909, 112