Overview
Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile
Padua
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia and Mortis Ia
Description
385x200 mm; I + 173 + I fols.
paper; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line, with annotations irregularly distributed on the sides; decorated initials.
<inc> Francisci Petrarce florentini poete laureati Sonitior[um] [sic] & Cantilena[rum] liber incipit feliciter
fols. 1r-135r: RVF with annotations (‘Francisci Petrarce florentini poete laureati Sonitior[um] [sic] & Cantilena[rum] liber incipit feliciter’);
fol. 135r: colophon: Amen. Francisci Petrarce poete florentini Sonictor[um] & Cantilena[rum] liber felicit[er] explicit per me Johanne[m] piciolpassu[m] Bonon[iensi] die vltima Aprilis MccccoLXjo. Laus Deo;
fol. 135v: blank;
fols. 136r-173r: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol.173r: colophon: Finis. Deo gratias. Amen;
fol. 173r: a few scattered words by the same hand;
fol. 173v: a note of possession (‘Questo libro sie de cap[†]or[†] di gr[—]’) and a few scattered sentences by two different hands.
Material Copy
Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile
Padua
Italy
A good number of the first thirty RVF poems and a very few other later ones have marginal annotations in Latin by the same hand, which either give a very short summary of the poem (or a passage) or translate a sentence by Petrarch, or else point out some rhetorical features. Other marginal annotations by the same hand either add some missing words or lines, or provide a few variant readings, or else point out some names mentioned in the poems; a few maniculae.
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 1) and Triumphus Mortis II (fol. 136r); decorated initials for the other beginnings of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; at the bottom of fol. 1r is a coat of arms within a wreath.
Datati, VII, 32; MSV, 18; Stievano 1904, 96