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[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France

Shelfmark
italien 551
Creator
Date
first half of the fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF

Description

Physical Description: Format

283x213 mm; 76 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; most Petrarchan poems with two verses per line; a few with one verse per line, but written in two columns (e.g., fol. 4v); some other poems written as if the text were prose (e.g., fol. 66r-66v); one architectural frame and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Uoi chascoltate in rime sparse il sono

Internal Description

fols. 1r-1v: prose text by a different hand;
 
fols. 2r-49r: RVF 1-262, followed by [Petrarch’s dispersa] ‘Donna mi uiene speso ne la mente’;
 
fol. 49v: blank;
 
fols. 50r-69r: RVF 264-366;
 
fol. 69r: colophon: Explicit Feliciter;
 
fols. 69v-75v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 76r: blank;
 
fol. 76v: anonymous poem by a different hand (one octave, <inc> Generoso figliuol del grande Alcide), followed by a word in capital letters (‘Roma’).

Material Copy

Location

Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France

Shelfmark
italien 551
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

A few marginal annotations by a similar hand either provide some explanations on the content of some poems, or give short paraphrase of a few lines.
 
Decorated initial for RVF 1 (fol. 2r); at fol. 2r is an architectural frame with a coat of arms at the bottom of the fol.

A microfilm (MF 2020) was used to create this entry.

Bibliography

Marsand, I, 131-32 (n° 122); Pellegrin 1966, 157-58 (= II, 335-36)
 
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Pulsoni 2016