Overview
British Library
London
United Kingdom
RVF
Description
224x148 mm; IV + 147 fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one portrait, one architectural frame, and decorated initials.
<inc> Rubrica de sonetti e canzoni morali del petrarcha
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
British Library
London
United Kingdom
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.
Harl. Mss 1808, III, 24; Mann 1975, 106