[RVF and Triumphi – with annotations]

296x220 mm; II + 94 fols.

paper; mercantesca (two hands: hand A wrote fols. 1-37 and 41-54; and hand B [Fighineldo’s] fols. 37-38 and 57-92); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line (at fols. 1-37 and 41-54 poems are written as a prose text with a vertical stroke separating the lines), with annotations irregularly distributed on the sides.

Cançoni e sonetti \ morali \ dello excellentissimo poeta mess[er] francesco petrachi [sic] fiorentino

fol. Ir: title by a later hand (‘Rime del Petrarca e di Dante’);
 
fols. I v-IIv: blank;
 
fol. 1r-31v: 217 RVF poems (182 sonnets, twenty-seven canzoni, three madrigals, and five ballads) with annontations (‘Cançoni e sonetti \ morali \ dello excellentissimo poeta mess[er] francesco petrachi [sic] fiorentino’);
 
fol. 37v-38v: eight RVF poems (i.e. RVF 11, 14, 106, 54, 55, dispersa ‘Donna mi venne spesso nella mente’, RVF 56 and 113);
 
fols. 39r-40v: blank;
 
fols. 41r-47v: forty-five RVF poems (including canzoni, sonnets, and ballads) (‘Chanzo [sic] d[e]l [†††] fra[ncesco] petrarcha’);
 
fols. 57r-86r: Triumphi with annotations (‘Francisci petrarce daflorentia laureati poete libri Trumphor[um] primus incipit’, order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis Ia, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis) with several marginal annotations by hand B and a later hand.
 
fol. 86r: colophon: amen;
 
fols. 86v-92r: blank;
 
fol. 92v: colophon: Sonecti de miser Francesco petrarcha et ballate et trionfo et cancone morale et el trionfale [sic] lo quale fo [sic] solo nelmundo de far simile cose per amore de lla sua laora tanto bella. Qui di sopra scripse il fighineldo daffirençe huomo de ginalc amor ne fa parlar de [††]lena; followed by two other notes by two different hands (‘amor’ and ‘et di nicholaio dipiero dameleto’).
 
 

Other contents:
 
fol. 32r-37r: twelve among Dante’s canzoni distese (‘Qui comi[n]ciano leca[n]zoni distese del chiaro poeta dante alighieri di fire[n]çe nelle quali divarie chose tracta[n]do nella prima la rigidita della sua donna co[n] rigide rime dimostra’; canzoni: ‘Cosi nel mio parlar uolglio [sic] esser aspro’, ‘Uoi chente[n]dendo ilt[er]ço ciel mouete’, ‘Amor che nella m[n]te mirasgiona [sic]’, ‘Le dolci rime damor chisolea’, ‘Amor che muouj tua ui[r]tu dalcielo’, ‘Iosento si damo[r] lagra[n] possança’, ‘Al pocho giorno et algran cerchio dombra’, ‘Amor tuuedi ben che q[ue]sta donna’, ‘Io son uenuto al pu[n]to della rota’, ‘Mincrescie dime simalam[en]te’, ‘La dispietata mente che pur mira’, and ‘Donna pietosa e dinouella etade’),;
 
fols. 48r-50r: blank;
 
fol. 50v: initial lines of four poems (‘A quante volte’, ‘Amore i no posso’, ‘P[er] otto et la chon[†]anpa’, and ‘Amor in cor uilano’);
 
fols. 51r-54r: [Boccaccio’s] three canzoni (‘Tantel sop[er]chio demiei duri affanni’, ‘Sio potessi difuor mostrare ap[er]to’, and ‘Donna nel uolto mio dipinto porto’), followed by three lines by later hand (‘Oime bellezza gientile che ssi mi graui | o pensieri miei amorosi e mortali | chintorno al chore sete tuta via’);
 
fol. 54v: blank;
 
fol. 55r: the same three lines written at fol. 54r (by the same hand that wrote them. At fol. 54r) with an annotation on the right by the same hand (‘di poeta miss[er] franc[esco] petrarcha de fiorenza’);
 
fol. 55v-56r: blank;
 
fol. 56r: scattered words by three different hands;