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218x139 mm; II + 91 (unnumbered) +261 + I fols.
paper; two hands: cursive humanistic script (fols. 1-261), and cursive eighteenth-century script (fols. 11-91); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.
<inc> Clarissimi poete atq[ue] laureati francisci petrarce uita felici[er] incipit edita p[er] d[ominum] Iannoctium de manettis florentinum ciue[m]
fols. 1r-10v: Manetti’s Latin life of Petrarch (‘Clarissimi poete atq[ue] laureati francisci petrarce uita felici[er] incipit edita p[er] d[ominum] Iannoctium de manettis florentinum ciue[m]’, <inc> Franciscus petrarchii cuiusdam seribe filius cognom[en]to petrarcha a petracho p[at]re; <exp>de hac precipua eius morte coluccius no[n] ignobilis n[ost]ri temporis poeta libellum quandam [sic] composuit);
fol. 10v: colophon: finis d[ie] xviij februarij Mcccclvj p[er]lo[†];
fols. 11r-18v: blank;
fols. 19r-59r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 59r: colophon: Laus Deo saluatorj n[ost]ri. Finis die Iouis demane xxviij nouembris Mcccclvj florentie tunc p[er]p[etuam] (?) pestem morant[em];
fols. 89r-233v: RVF;
fol. 233v: colophon: Finis die iiij februarij Mcccclvj die veneris vj hora noctis florent. ca[usa] pestis degent;
Other contents:
fol. 11r: title page (‘VIII. Manetti (Iannoctii) Vita Francisci Petrarchae & c. Cod[ice] 40’);
fol. 11v: blank;
fol. 21r: title (‘Ex bibliotheca stroctiana Cod. 495. P. Lasopoldi M.E.D. munificentia nonis Julii 1786. Catalogus MS. Codd. Stoctian. & c. nostra Bibliotheca Ferdinandi Fofsii’);
fol. 21v: blank;
fol. 31r: ‘In Catalogo primo nostrae Bibliothecae desideratur, ut alii Strociani Codd. Bibliothecae adancti post compilationem eiusdem. In Catalogo Codd. Strocian. & c. Ferd. Fofsii et Indice Gener. Codd. Cl. VII. P.8. Cod. 1143 Petrarca Rime, premessa la Vita di Giannozzo Manetti. Cof. Chart. In 4° Saec. XV’;
fol. 31v: blank;
fols. 41r-71r: index of contents the ms. (‘Operum series’);
fol. 71v: blank;
fols. 81r-91r: index of contents the ms. arranged alphabetically according to names of the authors included in the ms. (‘Operum series alphabetica’);
fol. 91v: blank;
fols. 59v-85r: poems by Mariotto Davanzati (terza rima ‘Quel diuo ingengno che p[er]uoi sinfuse’), Benedetto Accolti (terza rima ‘Se mai gloria dingegno altri conosse’, terza rima ‘Poi che ilciecho furore lalma sospinse’, terza rima ‘Quello antichi disio chalcore sauolse’, terza rima ‘Quando ilfocho damore che micostrinse’), Francesco Accolti (terza rima ‘Poi che lamato chore uide presente’), Dante’s terza rima ‘Credo’ [actually Antonio da Ferrara’s] (‘Io scrissi gia damore piu uolte rime’), Antonio di Meglio (canzone ‘Lalma pensosa elcorpo uincto & stancho’), Michele di Nofri del Giogante (sonnet ‘Magnanima, gentile, discreta, & grata’), and Buonaccorso da Montemagno (sonnets ‘Erano ipensier mia ristretti alchore’ and ‘Tornato e laspectato & chiaro giorno’);
fol. 85r: colophon: Finis d[ie] xxiij nouembris Mccclvj;
fol. 85r-85v: terza rima poem to the Virgin, ‘Magnifical signor lanima mia’;
fol. 85v: colophon: Finis. d[ie] xv madij 1458. flor[entie];
fols. 86r-88v: blank;
fol. 234r: blank;
fols. 234v-236r: poems by Dante (trilingual canzone ‘Ay falso uiso p[er]che mai tradito’), Coluccio Salutati (sonnet ‘Oschiacchiato dalciel damichael’), and Antonio Losco (sonnet per le rime ‘Ocleopatra o madre dismael’);
fol. 236r: colophon: Finis d[ie] sabati. h. xviiij. V februarij flor[entie] degent [c]a[usa] pestis;
fols. 236r-254r: poems by Stefano Finiguerri (terza rima ‘Ditutto ilcentro che leuropa cigne’), and Burchiello (sonnet ‘Questi chandoron [sic] gia studiare athene’);
fol. 254r: colophon: Finis die viij febr[uari]j Mcccclvj die martis p[rima] hora noctis flor[entie] ca[usa] pestis degent;
fols. 254r-257r: poem in ottave ‘O sacro santemuse che nel mo[n]te’ (i.e. Italian translation of Turpinus’s ‘Il Padiglione di Carlo Magno’);
fol. 257r: colophon: Finis. D[ie] xvj iunij 1457 flor[entie] hora xxa;
fols. 257v-261v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
Initials in gold for Petrarch’s life (fol. 1r), Triumphus Amoris I (19r), and RVF 1 (fol. 89r); the first one on a coloured square background, while the other two decorated with floral decorations. At the bottom of fol. 19r is a drawing of two cupids holding a wreath.
At fol. 146r, there is one marginal note by the same hand that wrote the main text adding two missing lines to RVF 127.
CPR, 86-87; Mazzatinti, XI, 237-38
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Manetti 2003, 62-85