Overview
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
236x160 mm; I + 178 + II fols.
paper; mercantesca (fols. 1-7) and semi-gothic hand (fols. 8-178); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.
<inc> Apie decolli oue la bella uesta
fols. 1r-7r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 7v: index of first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance (‘Nota ch[e] gli triumphi sono sei: p[ar]titi i[n] 13 cap[ito]li’;
fols. 8r-141r: RVF 1-366 (the last poem is RVF 363);
fol. 141r: colophon: finis per me b[a]pt[ist]am de Varsio Ianue[n]sem in castro saxoli ad laude[m] dei gloriose q[ue] virginis 1478 die 22 augusti;
fol. 141v: RVF 316 and 317 (not included in the previous fols. and by the same hand as that of fols. 1-7);
fol. 142r-142v: blank;
fols. 143r-178r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fama I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 178r: colophon: Francisci Petrarche triumphorum liber explicit;
fol. 178v: letters of the alphabet by a sixteenth-century hand.
Material Copy
Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom
Occasional marginal annotations by a different hand either provide variant readings, or correct some words, or else note some names mentioned in the capitoli; some maniculae and passages highlighted by vertical strokes close to the end of the lines.
Mann 1975, 399-401; Mortara 1864, 90