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[RVF with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Magl. VII. 1080
Creator
Date
sixteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF

Description

Physical Description: Format

216x125 mm; II + 154 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; round sixteenth-century script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Adpie de collidoue

Internal Description

fol. Ir-Iv: blank;
 
fol. IIr: some faded words;
 
fol. IIv: blank;
 
fol. 1r: some erased words;
 
fols. 1v-7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fols. 8r-12r: blank;
 
fols. 12v: one faded word;
 
fol. 13r: ‘Publij [sic] Francisci Petrarcae poete clarissi[m]i laureate carmen secular foeliciter incipit;
 
fols. 13r-152r: RVF;
 
fol. 152r: colophon: finis;
 
fol. 153r-153v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> Laura propriis uirtutib[u]s illustris et meis longum celebrata carminib[u]s; <exp> in expectatos rerum exitus acriter ac virili[ter] cogitantur [sic]);
 
fol. 153v: colophon: Vale & me vt soles ama et amicos n[ost]ros meo no[mi]ne salutatos. vs te[r]t[io] nouemb[ris];
 
fol. 154r-154v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Magl. VII. 1080
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Scattered marginal annotations by the same hand either refer to names mentioned in the poems, or signal misplaced lines; throughout the ms., vertical strokes close to the end of the lines highlight certain passages.
 
Decorated initial for RVF 1 (fol. 13r); there is a running header for each RVF poem.

Bibliography

CPR, 73-74