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[RVF and Triumphi with Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s life of Petrarch]

Overview

Place of Publication

Naples
Italy

Date of Publication
1477
Creator
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

folio; no signature; [178] fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; Petrarch’s poems in roman type, printed with one verse per line, and prose texts; no printed numbering.

Title Page

<inc> [Q]Vando mouo isospiri a chiamar uoi

Internal Description

fol. 1r-1v: blank;
 
fols. 2r-8v: RVF 5-23.125;
 
fol. 9r-9v: blank;
 
fols. 10r-130v: RVF 25-263 and 265-360;
 
fols. 131r-133v: blank;
 
fols: 134r-136v: RVF 264.118-150 and 366;
 
fol. 136v: colophon: Finis libri Francisci Petrarchi Florentini poete laureati: quem composuit ob amorem Laure: Impressi Neapoli Regnante Ferdinando Illustrissimo Sicilie Hierusale[m] & Hungarie Rege Anno ei[us] felicis regiminis XVIIII. Ab incarnatione domini. M.CCCC.LXXVII. De mense Marcii. Vicesima eiusde[m]. Per me Arnoldu[m] de Bruxella;
 
fol. 137r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Incipiunt dicta quedam reperta in quodam Virgilio in Papiensi bibliotheca manu propria Francisci Petrarche scripta sub hac forma’);
 
fol. 137v: extract from Petrarch’s Latin letter to Giacomo Colonna (Fam. II.9) (‘Hec sunt verba in epistola quadam scripta ad Iacobum de colunna Bomboriensem Episcopum’);
 
fols. 138r-160v: Triumphus Amoris, Pudicitiae, Mortis I, Mortis II, Mortis III [actually Triumphus Fame Ia].1-81;
 
fols. 161r-161v: blank;
 
fols 162r-167v: Triumphus Mortis III [actually Triumphus Fame Ia].144-163, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III.1-49;
 
fol. 168r-168v: blank;
 
fols. 169r-173v: Triumphus Fame III.112-118, Temporis, Eternitatis;
 
fol 173v: colophon: Finiunt Triumphi Francisci Petrarche Poete Laureati Inpressi Neapoli Anno .MCCCC.LXXVII. Die tertia mensis Apprilis Per Arnoldum de Bruxella;
 
fols. 174r-177v: [Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> [P]etracho figliuolo di Parenzo Cittadino Fiorentino discese dassai antica et honesta famiglia; <exp> Scripse deuiri illustri: De remedii: De luna et laltra fortuna: De la uita solitaria: De loco religioso: Del secreto combattimento: Delle sue solicitudine: De la sua et dimolti ignorantia: Libro senza nome: Duo volumi di pistole Inuectiua contra ifranciosi: Inuectiua contra vno medico bestiale: Libro delle cose di memoria et questo insoluta oratione: Duo volumi di vulgarita: Vno di sonetti et ca[n]zoni: & laltro triomphi: Tre libri inuersi cio e Bucolica et lepistole ad Barbatum & laffrica: et septe psalmi penitentionali);
 
fol. 177v: colophon: Finit vita Francisci Petrarche;
 
fols. 177v-178r: register;
 
fol. 178v: blank.

Copy Seen

Location

John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Incunable Collection 18520
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

In the John Rylands Library copy, RVF 1-4, 23.126-149, 24, 264.1-117, and 361-365, Triumphus Fame Ia.82-143 and Triumphus Fame III.50-111 have not been printed (blank fols. are inserted in their place). Though washed, this print bears a few signs of handwritten annotations (e.g., fols. 78v-79r).