Overview
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
RVF and Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
234x145 mm; VII + 172 + II fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame, historiated and decorated initials.
<inc> A pie decolli oue labella uesta
fols. Ir-IIv: blank;
fols. IIIr-VIIr: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. VIIr: colophon: Finita latavola delchanzoniere delpetraccha [sic];
fol. VIIv: blank;
fols. 1r-136v: RVF;
fol. 136v: colophon: Finiti esonetti ellecanzone dellaureato m[esser]e Francesco P[etrarc]a fiorentin[o];
fols. 137r-172v: Triumphi (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. 172v: colophon: Fra[n]cisci Petrarce poete clarissimi ethernitatis triumphus sextous [sic] & ultimus feliciter esplicit.
Material Copy
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
Occasional marginal annotations by the same hand either provide some missing words and lines, or give variant readings, or else suggest loci paralleli with classical Latin sources (i.e. at fol. 73r: ‘Varium et mirabile semper femina Virgilius in iiiio’, next to RVF 183.9-14).
Historiated initial in gold for RVF 1 showing the half-bust portrait of a man (Petrarch?) (fol. 1r); decorated initial for Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 137r); at fol. 1r is an architectural frame with a coat of arms that has been cut away at the bottom of fol.
Codices D’Orvilliani 1806, 83; Mann 1975, 448-49; Pächt and Alexander, II, 27