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[Selection of RVF poems and Triumphi with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Magl. VII. 1100
Creator
Date
first half of the fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi (except Mortis II)+ Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

215x143 mm; I + 148 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; mercantesca; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.

Title Page

<inc> Voi che ascholtate in rime sparse il suono

Internal Description

fols. 1r-5r: index of the first lines of RVF poems in order of appearance in the ms.;
 
fols. 5v-6v: blank;
 
fols. 7r-52v: Triumphi (except Triumphus Mortis II; order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 52v: colophon: fINIS;
 
fol. 53r-53v: blank;
 
fols. 54r-115r: 252 poems from RVF;
 
fol. 115v: blank;
 
fol. 144r-144v: RVF 11.
 
Other contents:
 
fols. 116r-144r: twenty of Dante’s poems (canzoni ‘Chosi nelmio parlar vogliess[er] asspro [sic]’, ‘Voi chentendendo ilterzo ciel mouete’, ‘Amor chenella mente miragiona’, ‘Le dolci Rime amor chisolia’, ‘Amor che prouij [sic] tua uirtu dacielo’, ‘Io sento sidamore lagran possanza’, ‘Alpoco giorno e al granciercho dombra’, ‘Amor tuuedi ben chequesta donna’, ‘Io sonuenuto alpunto dellarota’, ‘E Mincresce dime simalamente [sic]’, ‘Poscia chamor deltutto malasciato’, ‘Ladisspietata mente che pure mira’, ‘Tre donne intorno alcor mison uenute’, ‘Doglia mirecha nello chore ardire’, ‘Amor dache convien pur chimidoglia’, ‘Donne chauete intelletto damore’, ‘Donna pietosa edinouella etate’, ‘Liocchi dolente p[er] pieta delchore’, sonnets ‘Parole mie che p[er]lomondo sete’, ‘O dolci rime che parlando andate’);
 
fols. 144v-145v: Guido Cavalcanti’s canzone ‘Donna miprega p[er] chio uoglio dire’;
 
fol. 145v: largely unreadable and with a scraped colophon, which provides a terminus ad quem: ‘finito questo 8 [†] didicienbre 1426’;
 
fol. 145v: few lines on the content of the ms. (<inc> Chontiensi inquesto libretto ciento diuersi chanzone; <exp> i[n] parte di tanto senno);
 
fol. 146r: poem by anonymous author (<inc> Non posso più sapere del mio gra[n] male; <exp> porra lamano che serralla piu forte);
 
fol. 146r: colophon: Dice il serafino [†];
 
fol. 146v: blank;
 
fol. 147r: poem by anonymous author (<inc> Serbo Monsignor chondebil suo; <exp> etatto asigniore e no[n]sa doue uada);
 
fol. 147v: note of possession ‘Di Matt[e]o Cont.’.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Magl. VII. 1100
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

Above each of Petrarch’s RVF poems there is a running header written in red ink ‘M[esser] F[rancesco] petrarcha’. The whole ms. is penned by the same hand except for fol. 146r.

Bibliography

CPR, 63-64; Dante 2002, I.1, 250-51