Overview
Biblioteca Riccardiana
Florence
Italy
RVF
Description
220x145 mm; II + 87 + III fols.
paper; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.
<inc> fra[n]ce[—] Voi chascoltate in rime sparse elsuono
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
Biblioteca Riccardiana
Florence
Italy
Occasional marginal and interlinear annotations by the same hand provide some missing words.
CPR, 102; Ms.Ricc, 166-167; Ms.Ricc2, 27; Lami, 316