Overview
Biblioteca Casanatense
Rome
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia, Fame Ia.1-22
Description
227x150 mm; II + II1 + 160 + II fols.
parchment; cursive gothic hand (except for fol. 159v: semi-gothic hand; and fol. 160r: humanistic script); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.
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fol. I1r: title page by a later hand: Petrarca Optimus codex ab eruditis appellatus Petrarca Rime Ms. del secolo XIV. ([†††]) cioè del XIV o XV. Emputs anno 1780 ab Abb. Cancelliero;
fols. I1v-II1v: blank;
fols. 1r-89r: RVF 1-266 with dispersa ‘Donna miuiene spesso nelamente’ at fol. 44r;
fols. 89r-123v: RVF 267-366;
fols. 124r-152v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia + Mortis I.3-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-22 + Fame I.23-130, Fame II, Fame III.1-120, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fols. 153r-158r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 158r: colophon: Deo gratias Anj [sic];
fol. 158v: blank;
fol. 159r: two sonnets by [Domizio Brocardo] ‘Ahi lingua, ahi penna mia, che in tante carte’ (whose first readable line is line 7 ‘inuan lagrime tante et sospir trahi’) and [Niccolò Tinucci] ‘Ben puo leladre luci aterra sparte’;
fol. 159v: brief Latin prose text on an historical subject (<inc> [unreadable]; <exp> Tunc Janus primo regnat in Italia. Sequentia uide hic in facie in libro Eutropij);
fol. 160r: excerpts from Triumphus Amoris II.174, 178-187 and Pudicitie 1-16;
fol. 160v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Casanatense
Rome
Italy
The ordering of RVF poems is provided by Ms.Cas. IV, 43-44. A few marginal annotations by a later hand (probably a librarian) discuss the order of RVF poems in comparison with ms. 924 of the Casanatense library. At fol. 143r a marginal note (presumably almost contemporary to the composition of the ms.) points out that a few lines are missing.
The ms. is severely affected by damp, and this makes the upper part of each fol. hardly legible.
Ms.Cas., IV, 43-45