[RVF and Triumphi – with Bembo’s annotations]

298x216 mm; IV + 178 (volume I) + 168^* (volume II) + II fols. [the two volumes are bound together]

paper; sixteenth-century script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line, with annotations irregularly distributed on the sides.

LE COSE VOLGARI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA

fol. Ir-Iv: blank;
 
fol. IIr-IIv: note on the order of the fols. within Dante’s Commedia by a nineteenth-century hand;
 
fol. IIIv: shelfmark of the ms. and a bibliographical note of the contents of the ms. by a seventeenth-century hand;
 
fol. IIIv: blank;
 
fol. IVr: note by a different hand on Petrarch’s death [drawn from Galeazzo Gatari’s Istoria Padovana] (‘La morte d[i] m[esser] fra[n]cisco petrarcha’, <inc> Nelli annj d[e]l n[o]s[t]ro s[igno]re i[esu]s] xh[rist]u 1374 d[e]l martj a xviij d[e] lugio piacque a laltissimo dio d[i] richiamare l’anema benedeta d[e]l reverendo & excellente corpo d[e] m[esse]r fra[n]cesco Petrarcha laureato poeta; <exp> Trovosi haver fato moltj libri li nomi d[e]li qualj sono qui soto);
 
fol. IVr: colophon: El ho copiato da una cronica vechissima & caduca d[e] uerbo ad uerbu[m] fingendo le litere come le trouaua scrite & nulla mutando [d]i u[ost]ra S[igno]ria ser[—]mi Raimondo. P. Capo d[e] Vacia;
 
fol. IVv: blank;
 
fol. 1r: title (‘LE COSE VOLGARI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA’);
 
fol. 1v: title (‘SONETTI ET CANZONI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA | IN VITA | DI MADONNA LAVRA’);
 
fols. 2r-89v: RVF 1-229;
 
fol. 90r: blank;
 
fol. 90v: title (‘SONETTI ET CANZONI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARC\H\A | IN MORTE | DI MADONNA LAVRA’);
 
fols. 91r-103v: RVF 264-294 with annotations;
 
fols. 104r-113r: RVF 230-263 with annotations;
 
fol. 113v: RVF 265-266 [both erased with a single diagonal stroke of pen]; before RVF 265 is a note (by Bembo) (‘Hic Io uo pensando e nel pensier massale’);
 
fols. 114r-142r: RVF 295-366 with annotations;
 
fol. 142v: blank;
 
fols. 143r-178r: Triumphi with annotations (order: Amoris I, Amoris III.1-9 [erased with a diagonal stroke of pen], Amoris II, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis); before each capitolo is a title with reference to the Triumphus and the number of the capitolo (e.g., ‘Del triompho damore capitol I’);
 
fol. 178v: title (‘Francisci Petrarche laureati poete rerum uulgarium fragmenta’ [erased]);
 
 

Other contents:
 
fol. 1*r: title (‘LE TERZE RIME | DI DANTE’), at the bottom of the page is a note (by Bembo) (‘Sexto. Jul. M D I’);
 
fol. 1*v: title (‘LO’NFERNO E’L PVRGATORIO | E’L PARADISO | DI DANTE ALLAGHIERI’);
 
fols. 2*r-80*v: Inferno I-XXXIV.93;
 
fols. 81*r-86*v: Paradiso XX-XXII.66;
 
fols. 87*r-94*v: Paradiso XVI.49-XIX.90;
 
fols. 95*r-102*v: Paradiso XXII.127-XXVI.12;
 
fols. 103*r-145*v: Purgatorio XVI.124-XXXIII;
 
fols. 146*r-151*v: Paradiso I-III.6;
 
fols. 152*r-168*r: Paradiso XXVI.73-XXXIII);
 
fol. 168*r: colophon: Finitus in Recano rure Herculis Strozze mei Die xxvj. Jul. M D II Sept. Kl. Aug. M D I;
 
fol. 168v: blank.