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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

British Library
London
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Harley 3411
Creator
Date
1465
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

215x145 mm; III + 171 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; small semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame, historiated and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Alphabeto

Internal Description

fols. 1r-1v: blank;
 
fols. 2r-8v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Alphabeto’);
 
fols. 9r-11v: blank;
 
fols. 12r-138v: RVF;
 
fol. 138v: colophon: Amen. Compido el libro de sonetti et cançonne fatte p[er] lo laureate poeta meß[es] Francesco petrarcha fiorentino;
 
fols. 139r-139v: blank;
 
fols. 140r-171r: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fme II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 171r: colophon: Finis. Scripto per man de Jo. Andrea musolinj di miß[er] zuane apido adi hotto[bre] 1465;
 
fol. 171v: blank

Material Copy

Location

British Library
London
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Harley 3411
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

RVF 136-138 have been crossed out by pen.
 
At fol. 108r, a missing line (RVF 268.4) has been added in the margin of the text.
 
Historiated initial for RVF 1 showing a standing cupid (fol. 2r); decorated initials for all other RVF poems; at fol. 13r is an architectural frame with, at its bottom, a coat of arms within a tent surrounded by two jumping crowned leopards.

Bibliography

Harl. Mss 1808, III, 24; Iter, IV, 170a; Mann 1975, 107; Wanley 1966, I, 144 (n° 1)