[RVF with Marsili’s commentary on RVF 28 and 128, annotations, and index]

210x150 mm; I+ 137 + I fols.

parchment; various scripts (semi-gothic hand: 2r-84r; humanistic script: 90r-137v; other hands); first two Petrarchan poems copied in the middle of the fol. with annotations on all four sides and commentary in prose, distributed across the page after the end of each poem; the other RVF poems with one verse per line, with annotations irregularly distributed on the sides.

<inc> canzo[ne] A qualunque animale (fol. 2r)

fol. 1r: an erased Italian prose text, over which many scattered words and strokes of pen;
 
fol. 1v: some sentences in Latin by a different hand, below the three-line Latin epitaph for Petrarch by a different semi-gothic hand and some scattered words, strokes of pen, and a few drawings of armed soldiers;
 
fols. 2r-2v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems of fols. 4r-84r (under each letter of the alphabet [A-V], poems are listed in alphabetical order);
 
fol. 2v-3r: list of first lines of RVF poems not included in the previous index;
 
fol. 3v: first part of a poem, ‘Nobilissima donna alcui ualore’ by a later hand;
 
fols. 4r-5v: RVF 28 (‘Petrarcha laureatus flor[entinus]’) with annotations by the same hand on all four sides of the poem;
 
fols. 5v-7r: Marsili’s commentary on RVF 28 (<inc> Lamateria diq[ue]sta chanzone equesta Ilre philippo dy francia disponendosi a fare ilpassaggio contra linfedelj et a ricouerare later[r]a santa mando solen[n]e anbasciata al p[a]pa sopra q[ue]sto suo p[ro]ponimento; <exp> elli poeti sono inhamorati no[n] tamto di don[n]ae p[er]bellezza ma molto ancora dihuomini p[er]loro p[ro]dezza chome homero di Acchille Virgilio di enea et lautore discipione africano p[ri]mo dichui scrisse la Africa et p[er]o dice no[n] pu[r] sotto bende (fol. 7r);
 
fols. 7v-8v: RVF 28 with annotations by the same hand on all four sides of the poem;
 
fols. 9r-15r: Marsili’s commentary on RVF 128 (<inc> Italia mia e c[etera] Inquesta canzone p[ro]cede lautore p[er]solenne modo usato dalli altri poeti diuidendola i[n] tre parti cio sono p[ro]posta, i[n]uocatione et nar[r]ratione; <exp> pace uole ess[ere] nellanimo et e chiamata concordia cio e congiungimento di cuori, et pace inbocca et i[n] parole, et e pace ne fatti et semza [sic] ledue streme quella dimezzo e tradimento peximo, Idio metta pace p[er] tutto amen);
 
fol. 15r: colophon: fine aladispositione della cagione di Italia;
 
fols. 15v-43v: 26 RVF poems and one dispersa with annotations (all canzoni and sestine: RVF 53, 23, 119, 50, 22, 30, 66, 80, 142, 268, 270, 264, 129, 70, dispersa ‘Quel c’ha nostra natura in se piu degno’, RVF 71, 72, 73, 37, 360, 135, 323, 29, 125, 126, 127, and 105 (before each poem a note by the same hand refers to the metrical form, e.g., ‘chanzone’ or ‘sestina’);
 
fol. 43v: [Dante’s] sonnet ‘Se ne miei [sic] ben ciascun fosse leale’ by a later cursive hand;
 
fols. 44r-45r: RVF 206, Antonio da Ferrara’s sonnet ‘I prouaj gia come la soma egraue’, and Petrarch’s answer per le rime ‘Perche non caggi nelle oscure caue by a gothic hand;
 
fols. 45v-48r: prose text in Latin by a different hand (‘Profitia reuelata Regne Iohane p[er] magum nigromantem’, <inc> Magus o inclita et magnanima Regina cui fata nescio quid minantur; <exp> sine filijs mortus e[est] die 6. Augusti 1414);
 
fol. 48r-48v: Latin prose oration to the Virgin by a different hand (<inc> Ossecro te d[omi]na s[an]ctissima maria m[ate]r dei; <exp> ostendet p[er] tres dies ante ora[m] obit[us] sui);
 
fols. 49r-50v: RVF 366 (‘Oratione dinostra donna’);
 
fols. 50v-84r: almost two hundred RVF poems (sonnets, madrigals, and ballads), some disperse, some poems attributed to Petrarch, and some other poems by anonymous author (mostly written by the same hand, but a few by different ones) with annotations. RVF poems are copied in an unusual order; e.g., the first three sonnets are RVF 365, 62, and 99, while the last ones are RVF 113 and 1;
 
fols. 90r-137v: 151 (mainly RVF) poems absent from the collection of poems of fols. 4-84 (mostly RVF sonnets, but also some RVF ballads, canzoni, and sestine, and some disperse too) organized in alphabetical order of initial letter (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are neither listed alphabetically, nor according to order of appearance); the first text is RVF 25 and the last one is 295.7).
 
 

Other contents:
 
fols. 84v-85v: four sonnets by three different hands (1. ‘Santo Bernardo xr[ist]o adima[n]dato’, before is the note ‘Del Burchiello’ [by a different hand]; 2. the same poem ‘Santo Bernardo xr[ist]o a demandato’; 3. ‘Congrande vergogna rimase lognaffe’, before is the note ‘Sonetto mandato p[er]lo Ciscranna piccholominj da Siena Afiorentinj’ [by a different hand]; 4. ‘Non so Ciscranna se sono çaffi o çaffe’, before is the note ‘Risposta p[er] Giannoçço Sacchettj da firençe fatta Alciscranna dassiena sopradetto’ [by the same hand]);
 
fol. 86r: one word by a different hand (‘Longiora’ [sic]);
 
fols. 86v-87r: a prose text in vernacular (<inc> po lumana ueneratione; <exp> secculi de seculi) by a sixteenth-century hand;
 
fols. 87v-88r: blank; after fol. 87 a fol. has been cut out;
 
fols. 88v-89v: a prose text in vernacular (by the same sixteenth-century hand that wrote fols. 86v-87r) (<inc> puo lumana ueneratione; <exp> seculi de seculi [it might be a longer version of the text at fols. 86v-87r]);