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[RVF with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Plut.41.9
Creator
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF

Description

Physical Description: Format

140x235 mm; II + 157 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; historiated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> A pie decolli oue labella uesta

Internal Description

fols. 1r-7r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 7v: blank;
 
fols. 8r-157v: RVF;
 
fol. 157v: colophon: FINIS.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Plut.41.9
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

At fol. 8r is a historiated initial in gold for RVF 1 showing Petrarch in profile holding a closed book.
 
Above each of RVF poems is a running header written in red ink with the numbers of the poems written in sequence; the last poem (RVF 366) is numbered 358.

Bibliography

Bandini, It, 102-03; CPR, 18
 
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Belloni 2006, 159