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Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Vitr. 22-1

Location

Biblioteca Nacional de España
Madrid
Spain

Shelfmark
Vitr. 22-1
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

Fols. 11r and 151r have a rich architectural frame with floral decorations, medallions, small animals and cupids; at the bottom of fol. 11r is a coat of arms of the Spanish families Figueroa, Mendoza, and Enríquez, which presumably substituted the original coat of arms of the Montefeltro family. A similar architectural frame was designed for each Triumphus as testified by the architectural frame in pen, clearly unfinished, for Triumphus Pudicitie at fol. 162v. Triumphus Amoris, Pudicitie, Mortis, Fame are decorated with rectangular-box illumination representing the corresponding Triumphus (fols. 151r, 162v, 166v, 176r). Historiated initial for RVF 1, representing Petrarch holding a book; decorated initials in gold for each RVF poem, each Triumphus, and each subsequent capitolo. The ms. was penned by amanuensis Matteo di Ercolano Contugi (or Matteo di Volterra).
 
Missing lines of Fame III, Temporis, and Eternitatis due to the loss of fols.