Overview
Venice
Italy
RVF, Triumphi
Description
folio, no signature [but: a8, b-t10]; [189] fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems in roman type, printed with one verse per line, and prose texts; no printed numbering.
<inc> A piedi colli dela bella vesta a Ca. ii
First part
fols. Ir-IIr: blank;
fols. IIv-VIIIv: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed according to their order of appearance);
fol. VIIIv: index of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
fols. IXr-IXv: blank;
fols. 1r-136v: RVF with additional dispersa ‘Donna mi vene spesso ne la mente’ at a2r;
fol. 136v: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISS[IMI] CARMINVM AMORVM FINIS;
Second Part
fols. 137r-173v: Triumphi;
fol. 173v: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISSIMI TRIVMPHVS SEXTVS ET VLTIMVS DE ETERNITATE EXPLICIVNT. MCCCC.LXXIII. NICOLAO MARCELLO PRINCIPE REGNANTE IMPRESSVM FVIT HOC OPVS FOELICITER IN VENETIIS. FINIS;
fol. 174r: Petrarch’s note on Laura (‘Memorabilia quaeda[m] de laura manu p[ro]pria Francisci petrarcae scripta in quoda[m] codice Virgilii in papiensi bibliotheca reperta’);
fol. 174v: extract from Petrarch’s Latin letter to Giacomo Colonna (Fam. II.9) (‘Fragmentvm cuiusdam epistolae eiusdem Francisci Petrarcae ad Iacobum de colu[m]na Lomboriensem ep[iscop]um’);
fol. 174v: eight-line Latin poem from Fam. XI.4 (‘Valle locus clausa toto mihi nullus in orbe’);
fols. 175r-178v: [Pseudo-Antonio da Tempo’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Petracho [sic] figlivolo di Parenzo cittadino fiorentino disceso dassai antica et honesta famiglia: et lorigine loro fu da lancisa uilla presso a Firenze miglia. xiiii. Huomo prudente & actiuo. & per la republica in piu grauissimi casi adoperato & sopra le reformagioni di quella per alcuno tempo fu scriba; <exp> Scripse diciotto uolumi di libri: De uiri ilustri: De remedii: de luna & laltra fortu[n]a: De la uita solitaria De Loto[m] [sic] religioso: De secreto co[m]battime[n]to: De le sue sollicitudine: De la sua & di molti ignora[n]ti [sic]: libro se[n]za nome: Duo uilumi [sic] depistole: Inuectiua co[n]tra i fra[n]ciosi: Inuectiua co[n]tra uno medico bestiale: Libro delle cose di memoria & quello di soluta oratione: Duo uilumi di uulgari ta: Vno di sonetti & ca[n]zo[n]i & laltro trio[n]phi: tre libri i[n] uersi cioe.Boccolica: & delle epistole ad Barbatum: & laffrica: & septe psalmi penitentiali. Deo gratias);
fol. 178v: colophon: EXPLICIVNT TRVMPHI ET VITA PETRARCE;
fols. 179r-180v: blank.
Copy Seen
British Library
London
United Kingdom
John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom
British Library
London
United Kingdom
In the copy housed in Rome, at the Biblioteca Corsiniana (see digital copy 1), there is a decorated architectural frame around the text of the first two RVF poems (fol. 9r).
British Library copy (G11327) is in vellum and has decorated initials.
British Library copy (C4i4) is extensively annotated. Marginal annotations are provided for almost every composition in RVF, but not for the Triumphi. The first page of RVF has an architectural frame; coloured initials for each RVF poem.
In the John Rylands Library copy, a floral architectural frame (upper part of the page and upper half of the right side) has been pasted on fol. 1r.