Overview
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia, Fame Ia
Description
215x145 mm; 168 + I fols.
paper; mercantesca; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; with marginal annotations distributed in single column on right or left.
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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. 7r: colophon: finjta Latauola desonettj di messer franc[esc]o petrarcha poeta fiorentjno;
followed by few scattered illegible words by a different hand;
fol. 7v: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
fol. 8r: blank;
fols. 8v-135v: RVF;
fol. 135v: colophon: finita lamentazione delpetrarcha damore emorte laura. finis;
fols. 136r-168r: Triumphi (‘trionfo della amore. Seguitano li trionfj delpetrarcha’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia + Mortis I.4-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-22 + first half of Fame Ia.23 + second half of Fame I.23 + Fame I.24-130, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 168r: colophon: finis sex triunphor[um] petrarce [†††];
fol. 168v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
Annotations are by the same hand that transcribed the text next to the lines of RVF and Triumphi. The most extensive annotations (at fols. 29r, 52v-53r, 97r, 139r) either deal with mythological and historical figures or relate to events surrounding the composition of the poem (e.g. for RVF 120, the copyist recalls the recipient of the sonnet, poet Antonio da Ferrara, who had lamented Petrarch’s supposed death); some maniculae.
Bandini, It, 103-04; CPR, 19
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Guerrini Ferri 1986a, 165, 176; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 183; Pasquini 1975, 224 (n. 1)