Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
RVF, Triumphi
Description
271x184 mm; III + 195 + II fols.
paper; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
<inc> Tabula triumphorum Francissci [sic] Petrarcae poete clarissimi foeliciter incipit
fol. 1r-1v: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance (‘Tabula triumphorum Francissci [sic] Petrarcae poete clarissimi foeliciter incipit’);
fol. 1v: colophon: finis φ.κ.σ.ω.μ.σ.ω.δ.κ.μ.κ.κ.κ.κ.λ.υιιι (the last ten letters [‘μ.κ.κ.κ.κ.λ.υιιι’] might refer to the year 1458; see Ms.Pal. 1, 200);
fols. 2r-8v: index of the first lines of RVF poems listed in order of appearance (‘Yh[esu]s. Francissci [sic] Petrarcae poetae clarissimi odar[um] domine Laure mulieris pulcherrime tabula incipit’);
fol. 8v: colophon: τελωσ;
fols. 9r-49r: Triumphi (‘Francisci Petrarcae poetae clarissimi triumphorum incipit liber foeliciter’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 49r: colophon: τελοσ. Francisci Petrarce poetae clarissimi triumphorum liber explicit foeliciter;
fol. 49v: blank;
fol. 50r: title (‘Incomincia isonetti canzone et ballate dello illustrissimo poeta messere Francescho Petrarcha’);
fols. 50r-195r: RVF;
fol. 195v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
At fol. 8v, two notes of possession written by a sixteenth-century hand (1. ‘Ad usum D[omi]n[i] Valerianj flor[entin]i Monacj Vallis Umbrose’, and 2. ‘Anno D[omi]n[i] M.D.C.iij Valerianus supra dictus misit hunc libru[m] Mon[asteri]o Passiniane[n]si ut i[n] libreria co[n]servaret[ur]; tempore D[omi]n[i] Caesaris flore[n]tinj de Maynardis illius Monasterij Abbatis no[n] immeriti’).
Decorated initials in gold for both Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 9r) and RVF 1 (fol. 50r); coloured initials for every other capitolo of the Triumphi and all the other RVF poems; at fol. 9r is an architectural frame, with the coat of arms of the Albizzi family within a golden wreath at the bottom of the fol., surrounded by two flying cupids.
CPR, 64-65; Datati, IX, 29; Ms.Pal. 1, 200; Prev-Ms.Pal 1, 351