Overview
Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
RVF, Triumphi
Description
226x143 mm; II + 182 + II fols.
parchment (modern paper flyleaves); humanistic script; poems with one verse per line; three architectural frames; historiated initials.
<inc> A pie decolli la bella uesta
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);
fol. 7v: colophon: Laus honoroe [sic] gloria Sit deo patri cu[m] filio una cum sancto spirito insempiterna secula. AMEN;
fol. 8r-8v: blank;
fols. 9r-107v: RVF 1-266 (last poem is 264) (‘DOMINI FRANCiSCI PETR[AR]CE ODARVM UVLGARIVM LiBER PRIMVS INCIPIT’);
fols. 108r-146v: RVF 267-366 (‘DOMINI FRANCiSCi PETRARCE ODARVM UVLGARIVM LiBER SECVNDVS INCIPIT’);
fol. 146v: colophon: FINITO LIBERO ISTO. DETVR GLORIA XR[IST]O;
fol. 147r-147v: blank;
fols. 148r-181v: Triumphi (‘DOMINI FRANCiSCI PETRARCE UVLGARIVM TRIVMPHORVM LiBER INCiPIT’; order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie 1-94 + five lines, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Eternitatis, Temporis);
fol. 181v: colophon: Q\i\ scrisse gli triumphi de misser francescho Petrarcha poeta laureato scritti 1431 20 septembr[e]).
Material Copy
Biblioteca Palatina
Parma
Italy
Fols. 9r, 108r, and 148r have rich architectural frames with grotesque decorations. Historiated initals in gold for RVF 1, 267, and Triumphus Mortis II. At the bottom of fol. 9r is a tondo with blue background and gold letters ‘LP’.
Fols. 68v-69r: RVF 136-138 crossed out by pen but still legible.
A librarian’s note on a piece of paper attached to initial fol. IIr states that this ms. belonged to Benedetto Varchi (‘Codice nitidissimo del Sec[olo] XV cioè scritto nel 1431. contiene Le Rime di Francesco Petrarca appartenne a Benedetto Varchi’).
Boselli 1935, 246; CPR, 155