Overview
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
RVF
Description
265x200 mm; I + 70 fols.
parchment; two main scripts: gothic hand for main text; mercantesca for index of first lines; Petrarch’s poems set on both left and right in two horizontally aligned blocks with two verses per line; decorated initials.
‘Francisci Petrarce laureati Poete Vulgarium carmen incipit’
Initial pastedown: an erased note of possession followed by a second note of possession: ‘Questo libro etdi [—]nc[esco] charcheregli chelachattod[i] Lorenzo egli sta n[e]l garbo allato alchonte chartolaio siche rendetelo’;
fol. Ir: ms. shelfmark indicated by a later hand;
fol. Iv: note of possession: ‘Questo libro di franc[esco] digiouanni batista charcheregli chesta n[e]lgarbo e[†]lachattod[i] lorenda’;
fols. 1r-49r: RVF 1-263 with additional dispersa ‘Donna miuene spesso ne lamente’ at fol. 25v (‘Francisci Petrarce laureati Poete Vulgarium carmen incipit’);
fol. 49r: colophon: Francisci Petrarce Laureati Poete De dilecta sua uita qua[m] p[er] .xxi. [—]nn[os] adamauit Vulgaricum carmen explicit;
fols. 49r-69r: RVF 264-366 (‘Incipit de morte eiusdem qua[m] post obitum an[n]is .x. deplorauit ut seq[ui]t[ur]’);
fol. 69r: colophon: Amen;
fols. 69v-70r: incomplete (from A to I) alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
Other contents:
fol. 70r: medical recipes;
fol. 70v: sonnet by anonymous author (‘Senpre sidise chun Fadanno açento’) followed by RVF 366.1-3 penned in humanistic script.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
RVF 90, 92, and 120 (at fols. 20r and 25r) are introduced by rubrics written in red ink by the same hand that transcribed the main text. These Latin rubrics clarify the topic of the sonnets or the occasion of the correspondence (e.g. for RVF 90: ‘Hunc sonetum c[om]posuit d[omin]us franciscus responde[n]s d[omi]no cardinali dicenti sua[m] amasia[m] ad presens non e[ss]e formosam. describe[n]s qual[is] ip[s]a erat t[em]p[o]r[e] quofilo capt[us] e[st] in ip[s]am’). At fol. 1r is the note of possession: ‘Hieronymj Fortinj’. Fortini notes in a humanistic cursive script that RVF 351-354 have been repeated twice by the main copyist (‘idem a f[oglio] 64’).
For the RVF ordering and its relation with the ‘forma Malatestiana’, see Pancheri 2008.
Decorated initial in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 1r).
CPR, 27
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Brugnolo 2004, 120; Pancheri 2008; Storey 1999, 233 (n. 7); Storey 2004a, 162; Storey 2004b, 389