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[RVF and Triumphi – with anonymous set of annotations and index]

Overview

Current Location

Bibl. Bertoliana
Vicenza
Italy

Shelfmark
ms. 359
Date
mid-fifteenth century
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

285x197 mm; I + 160 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; mercantesca; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line, with annotations irregularly distributed on the sides.

Title Page

<inc> Apie de coli

Internal Description

fols. 1r-2v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 3r: note by a different hand (<inc> quij sara notado li sonetj &canzone del esimio poeta mis[ser] francj[esc]co petrarca conlj suj trionfj; <exp> p[er] letera); below this note is a list of alphabetical letters (from A to V), with a number corresponding to that of Petrarch’s poems that begin with each alphabetical letter);
 
fol. 3v: blank;
 
fols. 4r-125v: RVF and some disperse; close to the beginning of each poem (or stanza of canzone) are marginal annotations by the same hand (even though the section with RVF does not have an explicit internal partition, at fol. 88v, close to RVF 263 is written ‘Questo elultimo soneto che feze mess[er] f[rancesc]o invita de laura. elauda el lauro p[er]rjuerenzia del suo nome’);
 
fol. 125v: colophon: Amen;
 
fols. 126r-159r: Triumphi with annotations (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Mortis I, Mortis II, Pudicitie, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 159r: colophon: Finis; below which is a note by a different hand (‘Nota che tuttj li sonetj qual sono signatj cu[m] la mano p[er] notta veramente non sono del Petrarcha ma di poeta aßaj aßaj i[n]feriore ne maj dj lauro coronato’; [there are 36 sonnets signalled as non-Petrarchan; for a detailed list, see Mazzatinti, II, 52-53]);
 
fols. 159v-160v: several scattered words and sentences by the same and different hands; among them, at fol. 160v, are a note of possession (‘M cccco Lxx 8, adi 25 marzo la M.a [sic] de mis[ser] Vetore tiepollo q[uonda]m m[e]s[ser] andrea me dono questo libro presente marin damo[n]za & presente bernardin de s[er] Andrea scrivan et c[eter]a’) and a copyist’s note (‘Qui scrise Bernardin Damosto de Mis[ser] Zuane’; [it might be the same copyist who wrote ms. Venice, Bibl. Nazionale Marciana, It. IX, 283 (= 6318)]; see MssVI, 93).

Material Copy

Location

Bibl. Bertoliana
Vicenza
Italy

Shelfmark
ms. 359
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Next to both the beginning of each RVF poem (or stanza of canzone), and some passages of each capitolo of the Trumphi, marginal annotations by the same hand in Italian provide a short summary of the content of the poem and focus on historical issues mentioned in the text. This set of annotations may be related to that contained in ms. Venice, Bibl. Nazionale Marciana, It. IX, 283 (= 6318).
 
Some further marginal annotations by the same hand either add a missing word or line, or provide variant readings; some maniculae.
 
Fols. 1 and 11 have been substituted by two new fols. with the same content (i.e. alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems [from A to L]; and RVF 23.134-169, 24, and 25, respectively), written by a sixteenth-century hand.

Bibliography

Caparozzo 1871, 83; MssVI, 93; Mazzatinti, II, 52-53
 
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Cavedon 1976, 4; Guerrini Ferri 1986a, 174, n. 406; Vecchi Galli 1999, 362-63