Overview
Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia and Mortis Ia
Description
201x132 mm; III + 191+ III fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text; two architectural frames and decorated initials.
<inc> La Tavola delpetrarca
fol. Ir-Iv: blank;
fol. IIr: pen strokes;
fols. IIv-IIIr: scattered words by a later hand;
fol. IIIv: sonnet ‘Nela piu bella etade et piu fiorita’ by a later hand;
fols. 1r-7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘La Tavola delpetrarca’);
fols. 7v-8r: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance by a different hand;
fol. 8v: blank;
fols. 9r-148v: RVF;
fols. 149r-185r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame I, Fame Ia, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fols. 185v-191v: [Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Francesco petrarcha huomo di grande ingegnio & non diminor uirtu; <exp> maxime perche lauirtu e certa & lacorona tal uolta p[er] lieue giudicio cosi achi merita come achi non merita dare sipuote);
fol. Ir: blank;
fol. Iv: anonymous sonnet ‘Capece mia uittoriosa ebella’ by a later hand;
fol. IIr-IIv: scattered words by a later different hand;
fol. IIIr-IIIv: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
Scattered marginal annotations by a later hand either add missing lines, or provide variant readings (even of a long passage, e.g., fol. 154v). Two poems are added by the same later hand between RVF 120 and 121 (fol. 58v) and after the end of Triumphus Eternitatis (fol. 185): a six-line poem (<inc> Tal ride del mio ben ch[e]l riso simola [sic]; <exp> no[n] se dalamentar saltrui logan[n]a [sic]), and the sonnet ‘Capece mia uittoriosa e bella’, respectively.
RVF 136-138 (fols. 70v-71r) crossed out by pen; next to each poem is the note ‘Prohibito’ by a later hand.
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 9r), Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 149r), Pudicitie (fol. 160v), Mortis I (fol. 164r), Fame Ia (fol. 172v), Temporis (fol. 180r), Eternitatis (fol. 182v); at fols. 9r and 149r is an architectural frame; at the bottom of fol. 9r is a coat of arms surrounded by two standing cupids.
Boselli 1995, 248-49; CPR, 284
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Hankins 1997