Overview
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
230x150 mm; III + 172 + III fols.
parchment (except flyleaves in paper); cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; decorated letters.
<inc> VOI CHASCOLTATE IN RIMESPARSE IL SVONO
fols. 1r-123r: RVF 1-366 with additional dispersa ‘Donna mi uene spesso ne la mente’ at fol. 83v;
fol. 123r: colophon: FINIS. Laus DEO atq[ue] Gloriosissima Virginis Maria;
fols. 123v-124v: blank;
fols. 125r-162v: Triumphi (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE CLARISSIMI TRIVMPHALIS LIBER’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 162v: colophon: TRIVMPHI FINIVNT;
fols. 163v-164v: blank;
fols. 165r-171r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 171r: colophon: Finis;
fol. 171v: single word at the top of the fol.: PAVLVS;
fol. 172r: few annotations on scattered Petrarch’s lines by a fifteenth-century humanistic hand (see Notes);
fol. 172v: blank;
Other contents:
fol. 163r: six-line Latin poem by anonymous author (<inc> Hec est illa dies magna celebrima mundo).
Material Copy
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
Next to RVF 105.14-15, 30.14, Triumphus Pudicitie 79-81, RVF 94.1-3, 337.11 at fol. 172r, an anonymous sixteenth-century annotator makes a few grammatical observations on words used in singular or in plural forms and quotes the name ‘Bembo’ next to RVF 30.14. The annotations are edited in De la Mare-Nuvoloni (2009, 429).
The resulting sequence of RVF poems is heavily altered by the loss of fols.: RVF 1-7, 12-125.30, 126.9-135.42, 136.5-146.8, 162.7-242, ‘Donna mi uene spesso ne la mente’, 243-247, 264.18-336, 350, 355, 337-349, 356-362, 366. At fols. 96v and 120v, some missing lines of RVF 294 and 366 have been copied in brown ink, presumably by another hand. Coloured upper-case letters for RVF 1 (fol. 1r) and for each rubric at the beginning of each Triumphus (125r, 137r, 141r, 150r, 157v, 160r).
Bandini, It, 413; BML Mostra, 51; CPR, 24
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De La Mare 2002, 459 (n. 1), 474-475; Gorni 1993, 119; Guerrini Ferri 1986a, 166, 177-178; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 183; Pasquini 1975, 224 (n. 1); Maddalo 2002; Petrucci 2017, 628; Regnicoli 2012, 272 (n. 34), 278 (n. 48); Rodella 1993