Overview
Boston Public Library
Boston, MA
United States
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
195x117 mm; I1 + II + 178 + II fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one rectangular-box illumination, one architectural frame, and decorated initials.
<inc> A qual[⎯]que animale (fol. Iv)
fols. I1r-Ir: blank;
fols. Iv-IIv: first half of the alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems by a contemporary humanistic hand (under each letter of the alphabet [A-M], poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 1r: rectangular-box illumination with Apollo running towards Daphne who is clinging to a laurel tree; above is a title (‘Francisci P[etrarcae] poetae cla[rissimi] sonector[um] et cantilenar[um] liber i[n]cipit’); below the illumination is RVF 1;
fols. 1v-142v: RVF 2-366;
fol. 142v: colophon: τελωσ. Francisci Petrarce poetae clarissimi sonectorum et cantilenarum liber foeliciter explicit;
fols. 143r-175v: Triumphi (‘Francisci Petrarce poete clarissimi Triumphorum liber unicus foeliciter incipit’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 175v: colophon: Francisci petrarce poete clarissimi triumphorum VI liber unicus foeliciter explicit. Laus Deo;
fols. 176r-177r: second half of the alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems by the same contemporary humanistic hand that wrote the first part of the index (under each letter of the alphabet [N-Z], poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 177v-178v: blank.
Material Copy
Boston Public Library
Boston, MA
United States
Historiated initial in gold for RVF 1 showing a portrait of Petrarch holding a book (fol. 1r); decorated initial in gold for the beginning of each Triumphus (fols. 143r, 154v, 158r, 167r, 174r, and 176r); at fol. 1r is an architectural frame with the coat of arms of the Strozzi family at the bottom of the fol.
Before every RVF poem is a running number written in red.
Dutschke 1986, 73-75 (n. 17); Ullman 1964, 447 (n. 10)