Overview
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
RVF 237-239, 360-365, Triumphi
Description
291x215 mm; I + 72 + I fols.
paper; mercantesca; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.
‘Chomincia latauola detrionfj Intredicj uersi’
fols. 1r-3v: blank;
fol. 4r: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance (‘Chomincia latauola detrionfj Intredicj uersi’);
fol. 4r-4v: index of the first lines of Dante’s canzoni (under each letter of the alphabet, canzoni are listed in order of appearance) (‘le chanzone didante’);
fol. 4v: index of the first lines of a selection of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Ciertj sonettj echanzone’);
fols 5r-40v: Triumphi (‘Quj chominciano Itrionfj delpetrarcha’; order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 40v: colophon: Finitj Itrionfi delpetrarcha amen;
fols. 65v-70v: selecetion of RVF poems (360-365, 237-239);
fol. 70v: colophon: finito a†† Iscritto permichele \ de louicho \ marmi de fire[n]ze Inuinegia del mese digiungnio 1441;
fols. 71r-72v: blank;
Other contents:
fols. 41r-64v: eighteen of Dante’s poems (‘Q[u]i appresso saranno Iscritte le chanzoni didante alighieri poeta fiorentino’; canzone ‘osi [sic] nelmio parlar vogliessere aspro’, sestina ‘lpoco [sic] giorno etalgran cerchio dombra’, canzoni ‘oi [sic] chentendo [sic] Ilterzo cielo mouete’, ‘mor [sic] chenella mente miragiona’, ‘sono uenuto alpunto dellarota’, ‘re [sic] donne Intorno alchor mison uenute’ (lines 1-100), ‘edolci [sic] rime damor chisolea’, ‘despiatata [sic] mente chepur mira’, ‘mor [sic] dache chonuien purchio medoglia’, sestina ‘mor [sic] tuued [sic] ben cheqesta [sic] don[n]a’, canzoni ‘mor [sic] chepiouj [sic] tua uertu dacielo’, ‘Josento sidamor lagranpossanza’, ‘mincrescie [sic] dime simalamente’, ‘Poscia chamor deltutto malasciato’, ‘Uoglia [sic] mirecha nellocuore ardire’ (lines 1-147), ballads ‘Voi chesapete ragionar damore’, ‘I mison pargoletta bella enoua’, ‘Per una ghirlandetta chio uidi’ [sic]);
fol. 65r: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City
Fol. 18r: scattered words by a later hand in the right margin.
Parchment flyleaves contain sheet music.
Dante 2002, I.2, 747-48; Narducci 1874, 22; Pellegrin 1976, 91-92
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Guerrini Ferri 2006, 181, 202, 210