Overview
Archivio di Stato di Firenze
Florence
Italy
RVF
Description
230x165 mm; II + 21 unnumbered + 121 (numbered 31-151) + I fols.
paper; cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line with marginal annotations distributed in single column on right.
<inc> Italia mia benche
fol. IIr: scattered words and lines from Latin and vernacular poems (including RVF 7.1-3);
fol. IIv: top half: index of the first lines of RVF poems 1-11 (‘Sonetti del petracha [sic] di pipp[†]’); bottom half: brief (presumably humorous) note addressed to Cosimo Pitti on some white clothes;
fols. 11r-21v: incomplete alphabetical index (L to Z) of the first lines of RVF poems with metre specified (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 31r-151v: RVF 70.12-366 and dispersa ‘Donna miuene spesso nella mente’ at fol. 53r with annotations;
fol. 151v: colophon: Deo grat[ias]. Finischono esonetti & canzone dimess[er] francescho petrarcha poeta clarissimo & Laureato in uita. Jo Lorenzo difranc[esco] ghuidettj scrissi q[ue]sto libro ann[o] 1464 finito ad 22 digen[n]aio;
fol. Iv: scattered words followed by RVF 6;
Other contents:
fol. 151v: lauda by anonymous author (‘laudes’; <inc> In nulla siuuol porre lasua speranza);
fol. Ir: blank.
Material Copy
Archivio di Stato di Firenze
Florence
Italy
There are two series of annotations by the same hand that transcribed the main text: 1) concise notes next to lines of RVF poems, indicating variant readings and names of the authors imitated by Petrarch; 2) some longer ones, mostly written in red ink, providing an introduction to the sonnets, with a focus on the meaning of the poems or on the occasion in which they were composed (for instance, as regards RVF 120 at fol. 52v, the annotation states that the poem was conceived as a reply to the poet, Antonio da Ferrara, and his lament at Petrarch’s supposed death: ‘Risposta aduna morale di maetro ant[oni]o daferrara i[n] laude delpetrarca nelquale egli aueua inteso dire essere passato diquesta uita, ilch[e] no[n] fu uero. bench[e] digrauissima i[n]fermita fusse grauato’).
Fols. 1-30 are missing; the order of the final c. fifty poems is heavily disrupted by faulty binding.
Inv.StrozziIIIAdd, 46-48
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Fabbri L. 2005, 226n