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[RVF with index]

Overview

Current Location

British Library
London
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Harley 3410
Creator
Date
mid-fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF

Description

Physical Description: Format

224x148 mm; IV + 147 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one portrait, one architectural frame, and decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Rubrica de sonetti e canzoni morali del petrarcha

Internal Description

fols. 1r-2v: blank with few scattered words;
 
fols. 3r-8v: index of the first lines of RVF poems in order of appearance (‘Rubrica de sonetti e canzoni morali del petrarcha’), followed by two unnumbered blank fols.;
 
fols. 10r-145v: RVF;
 
fol. 145v: colophon: Deo Gra[tia]s. Amen. Bartholomeus;
 
fols. 146r-147v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

British Library
London
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Harley 3410
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

RVF 114 and 136-138 have been fully crossed out by pen, either totally (RVF 136), or partially (RVF 114.1-4, RVF 137.1-8; RVF 138.1-3, 5-8, and 10-14). At fol. 108r, a missing line (RVF 268.4) has been added in the margin of the text.
 
Decorated initials for every RVF poem; at fol. 9r is an architectural frame; at the top of the same fol. is a portrait of Petrarch’s head, and at the bottom a coat of arms.

Bibliography

Harl. Mss 1808, III, 24; Mann 1975, 106