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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Ashb. 1118
Creator
Date
1476
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia, Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

185x127 mm; III + 269 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.

Title Page

RIME DEL | PETRARCA

Internal Description

fol. IIIr: title page: RIME DEL | PETRARCA;
 
fol. IIIv: blank;
 
fols. 1r-10v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fols. 11r-214r: RVF;
 
fol. 214r: colophon: AMEN;
 
fol. 214v: blank;
 
fols. 215r-269r: Triumphi (‘domini francisci petrarce poet[a]e Laureati triumphi sex incipiu[n]t: et primus primus [sic] quod sequitur de amore scribitur’; order: Amoris I, Amoris III.1-154, Amoris II.84-186, Amoris IV.1-16, Amoris III.155-187, Amoris II.1-83, Amoris IV.17-155, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I + Mortis II.1-20, 142-190, Fame Ia.1-69, Mortis II.21-140, Fame Ia.70-163, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 269r: colophon: AMEN. EXPLICIT LIbELLVS SONETARVM Et triumphore domini francisci petrarce clarissimi uiri anno a cristi natiuitate milesimo quadringe[n]tesimo septuagesimo sexto, die ulti[m]o mensis decembris arce nouellarie;
 
followed by three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch (‘Epita[phium]’; <inc> Frigida francisci lapis hic tegit ossa petrarce) and a second colophon: AMEN;
 
Other contents:
 
fol. 269v: three-line Latin poem by anonymous author (<inc> Auaris non splebitur pecunia et q[uod] amat).

Material Copy

Bibliography

Cat.Ashb., n° 1118
 
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Pasquini 1975, 224 (n. 1), 227 (n. 3), 237