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[Selection of RVF poems with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Riccardiana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
1136
Creator
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF

Description

Physical Description: Format

220x145 mm; II + 87 + III fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.

Title Page

<inc> fra[n]ce[—] Voi chascoltate in rime sparse elsuono

Internal Description

fol. Ir-Iv: blank;
 
fol. IIr: title by a later hand (‘Petrarca’);
 
fol. IIv: blank;
 
fols. 1r-57r: 225 RVF sonnets ‘in vita’ (the first sonnet is RVF 1; the last one is RVF 263);
 
fol. 57v: colophon: finiscono tutti esonetti equali messer franc[esc]o fecie prima ch[e] lauretta morissi;
 
fols. 57v-80r: 92 RVF sonnets ‘in morte’ (the first sonnet is RVF 265; the last one is RVF 361);
 
fol. 80r: finis om[ni]um sonettor[um] fra[ncisci] petra[r]ce;
 
fol. 80v: Latin translation of RVF 132 and 134 (‘Translatio soniti petrarce q[ui]incipit Samor no[n]ne [sic]’, <inc> Sifor[s] no[n]sit amor [i]g[itur] q[uid] sentio? u[e]l si; and ‘Traslatio sonitti q[ui]incip[it] paceno[n] truouo’, <inc> Nec pace[m]inuenio nec e[st] a bella facultas);
 
fol. 80v: colophon: finis dil uolumj [sic];
 
fols. 81r-82v: eight ballads from RVF (i.e. RVF 324, dispersa ‘Donna mi viene spesso nella mente’, RVF 55, 59, 11, 14, 63, and 149) (‘Cominciano leBallata [sic]);
 
fols. 82v-83r: four madrigals from RVF (i.e. RVF 52, 54, 106, and 121);
 
fol. 83r: colophon: finis. Questi 4 madrigalj et queste sette [sic] vltime ballate fece mess[er] fra[ncesc]o in[n]ançi la morte delauretta lal [sic] prima de poj;
 
fols. 83v-87v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF sonnets, ballads, and madrigals (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Qui chomi[n]cia latauola p[er] alfabeto dituttj esonetti ch[e] sono insuquesto libro chomj[n]cia[n]do p[er] ordine alla a’).

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Riccardiana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
1136
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Occasional marginal and interlinear annotations by the same hand provide some missing words.

Bibliography

CPR, 102; Ms.Ricc, 166-167; Ms.Ricc2, 27; Lami, 316