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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France

Shelfmark
italien 546
Creator
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Triumphus Fame Ia and Mortis Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

287x200 mm; I + 170 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> A pie de colli oue labella uesta

Internal Description

fols. 1r-6r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 6v: blank with a note of possession by a later hand (‘Di Gio. Battista DETI P.o’), the same note appears also at the bottom of the following fol.;
 
fols. 7r-95v: RVF 1-263;
 
fol. 95v: colophon: Finis Vite Veteris;
 
fol. 96r-96v: blank;
 
fols. 97r-134r: RVF 264-366;
 
fol. 134r: colophon: Finita lamorte dellaura [sic];
 
fol. 134v: RVF 349, followed by the note by the same hand (‘questo sonetto segue dirieto aquello sonetto chedicie dapiù belli occhi etdal più chiaro uiso’);
 
fols. 135r-136v: blank;
 
fols. 137r-170v: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 170v: colophon: Finiti itriunfi dimesser Francescho Petrarca poeta fiorentino.

Material Copy

Location

Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France

Shelfmark
italien 546
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Scattered marginal annotations by a different hand either give variant readings or add missing lines; a different hand added a running header for each RVF poem and the number of the fol. where each poem is copied in the alphabetical index; some maniculae.
 
Decorated initials for RVF 1 (fol. 7r), RVF 264 (fol. 97r), the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo.

Bibliography

Marsand, I, 794-95 (n° 689); Pellegrin 1966, 147-49 (= II, 325-27)