Overview
Venice
Italy
RVF, Triumphi
Description
folio; *6, a9, b8, c6, d-m8, n-o6, p-q8, r9, s8; [142] fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems in roman type, printed with one verse per line, and prose texts; no printed numbering.
<inc> A piedi colli della bella vesta a Ca. ii
First part
*1r-*2r: blank;
*2v-a1r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
a1r-a1v: index of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
a1v: Petrarch’s note on Laura;
a2r-o6v: RVF;
o6v: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISSIMI RERVM VVULGARVM FRAGMENTA EXPLICIVNT;
Second part
p1r-s4v: Triumphi;
s4v: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRALGAE [sic] POETAE EXCELLENTISSIMI TRIVMPHI EXPLICIVNT;
s5r-s7v: [Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Francesco Petrarcha huomo di grande ingegno & no[n] di me[n] uirtu naque i[n] arezo nel borgo de lorto; <exp> Di che morto il Petrarcha le muse sue ritene e quasi dheredita fu successore Rimaseno ado[n]che al bochaccio & in lui risedete la fama de poeticci studii e fu successione anchora nel te[m]po pero che quando el Petrarcha mori era il bochaccio diminor eta di lui de anni.ix.& cosi per successione andorono le muse. Finis VITE. F[rancisci] P[etrarce]);
s7v-s8r: two sonnets in praise of Petrarch (‘Si drento del mio Cor depinto porto’ and ‘O felice auctore secunda fama’);
s8r: colophon: Francisci petrarcae laureati poetae nec non secretarii apostolici benemeriti. Rerum uulgariu[m] Liber foeliciter absolutus est Venetiis per Magistrum Philippum Venetum de eo benemeritum. FINIS. M.CCCC.LXXXII. DIE XIII;
s8v: blank.
Copy Seen
Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
United States
John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom
The John Rylands Library copy does not have fols. s5-s8; but it has illustrated or hand-coloured initials for each RVF poem and two rectangular-box illuminations (at the bottom of the opening pages of both RVF [fol. a2r] and Triumphi [fol. p1r]): one with a coat of arms (upper part red, bottom part vertical blue and white stripes) encircled by a wreath with an angel at each side and in a countryside settings; and the other with a blindfolded cupid again in countryside (the cupid is in a circle around which are decorative elements: a vase with some flowers surmounted by the head of a cherub).
In the Cornell copy, fols. *1 and *2 are missing. Some handwritten marginal annotations (by Calisto di Piazza da Lodi [1500-1561]), mostly give lists of numbers (apparently unrelated to Petrarch), refer to debts and credits, and include texts unrelated to Petrarch. There are also nine marginal drawings in brown crayon (by Calisto di Piazza da Lodi – all seem unrelated to Petrarch) at fols. b6v, e3v, e6v, f1v, h7v, k8v, p5v, q1v, and s6v (see Dutschke 1986, pp. 113-114). Five smaller fols. with some notes by Calisto di Piazza (unrelated to Petrarch) are bound within the edition too, after fols. e3v, e6v, h7v, p5v, and q1v (on these notes, see Dutschke 1986, pp. 113-114).
Ullman 1964, 451; Dutschke 1986, 113-114