Overview
Padua
Italy
RVF, Triumphi
Description
folio; no signature [but: a8, b-o10, p8, q-s10, t8, u4]; [191] fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems in roman type, printed with one verse per line, and prose texts; no printed numbering.
<inc> A piedi colli dela bella vesta a Ca. iii
First part
fol. 1r-1v: blank;
fols. 2r-9r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 9r: index of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
fol. 9v: Petrarch’s note on Laura;
fols. 10r-147r: RVF;
fol. 147r: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISSIMI RERVM VVLGARIVM FRAGMENTA EXPLICIVNT;
fol. 147v: blank;
Second Part
fols. 148r-184v: Triumphi;
fol. 184v: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISSIMI TRIVMPHI EXPLICIVNT;
fols. 185r-188r: [Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Francesco Petrarcha homo di grande ingegno & non di me[n] uirtu naque i[n] arezo nel borgo di lorto; <exp> Di che morto il Petrarcha le muse sue ritene e quasi heredita fu successore Rimaseno adu[n]che al bochazio & in lui risedete la fama de poetici studii e fu successione anchora nel tempo pero che quando el Petrarcha mori era il bochazio diminor eta de lui de anni.ix.& cosi per successione andorono lumuse [sic] finis VITE. F. P.);
fol. 188v: two sonnets in praise of Petrarch (‘Si drento dil mio Cor depinto porto’ and ‘O felice auctor secunda fama’);
fol. 189r: colophon: Francisci petrarcae laureati poetae necnon secretarii apostolici benemeriti. Rerum uulgariu[m] fragme[n]ta ex originali libro extracta In urbe patauina liber absolutus est foeliciter BAR.de Valde.patauus.F.F. Martinus de septem arboribus Prutenus. M.CCCC.LXXII.DIE VI.NOVENBIRS [sic];
fols. 189v-110v: blank.
Copy Seen
British Library
London
United Kingdom
British Library copy has a few marginal annotations in Latin. The opening page of the RVF is decorated with an unadorned frame in black-ink at the top of the page and two angels at the bottom (one caressing a swan, and the other taking the swan by its neck and putting something in a vase).
John Rylands Library copy has two illuminated coats of arms at fol. 10r (the first one is divided into four quarters: in the first and fourth quarters a rising lion on blue background; in the second and third two red Greek frets on white background; the second coat of arms has a rising lion on golden background; both coats encircled in a laurel crown, close to which there is an angel on each side carrying a cartouche); RVF 136-138 fully crossed out by pen both in the alphabetical index and at fols. 61v and 62r.