Overview
Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
United States
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
264x169 mm; II + 187 + II fols.
parchment (except fol. 40 in paper); round humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; two architectural frames, historiated and decorated initials.
TRIONFO PRIMO DEL CLARISSIMO POETA LAVREATO MESER FRANCIES\C\HO PETRARCHA FIORENTINO INEL QVALE TRIONFO TRATTA DAMORE INCOMINCIA FELICEMENTE
fol. 1r: blank;
fol. 1v: title (‘TRIONFO | PRIMO DEL CLARISSI | MO POETA LAVREATO | MESER FRANCIES\C\HO PETRAR | CHA FIORENTINO INE | L QVALE TRIONFO TRATTA | DAMORE INCOMI | NCIA FELICE | MENTE’);
fols. 2r-39r: Triumphi (‘Trionfi del Clarissimo poeta mesere Francescho Petrarcha fiorentino incominciano eprima il trionfo dellamore felice’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 39r: colophon: Finis;
fols. 39v-40v: blank;
fols. 41r-179v: RVF (‘Incominciano isonetti ele canzone di mesere Francescho Petrarcha poeta fiorentino feliciter incipit’);
fol. 179v: colophon: Finis;
fol. 180r-180v: blank;
fols. 181r-187r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 187v: blank.
Material Copy
Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
United States
Occasional marginal annotations by at least two different contemporary/slightly later hands include: addition of missing words and lines; variant readings; and corrections of some words.
At fol. 1v is a title within a wreath with cupids on three sides (at the top, on right and left); historiated initials for Triumphus Amoris I showing Petrarch sitting and sleeping (fol. 2r) and RVF 1 showing Petrarch holding a book in his hand (fol. 41r); decorated initials in gold for the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; at fol. 2r is an architectural frame with four medallions (half-bust portraits of noble people) and, at the bottom of fol., the coat of arms of the Skanderbeg family; at fol. 41r. is another architectural frame with a medallion (with Laura’s portrait) and the coat of arms of the Skanderbeg family.
Dutschke 1986, 126-29 (n° 44); Ullman 1964, 453 (n° 31)