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[RVF and Triumphi with Bruni’s life of Petrarch and index]

Overview

Current Location

Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Canonici Ital. 68
Date
1470-1480
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

247x155 mm; I + 121 + 180 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; semi-cursive humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose texts.

Title Page

<inc> A qualunque animal [⎯]

Internal Description

fol. 11r: two notes of possession (‘Codex Bernardi Salerni’ and ‘Hieronymi Scalphielli’) by two different sixteenth-century hands and a few scattered words by two sixteenth-century hands;
 
fol. 11v: blank;
 
fols. 21r-81v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fols. 81v-91r: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
 
fol. 91r-91v: Petrarch’s note on Laura (<inc> Laura proprijs uirtutib[u]s illustris & meis longum celebrata carminib[u]s; <exp> in expectatos exitus acriter ac uiriliter cogitanti);
 
fols. 91v-121v: [Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Francesco petrarcha huomo di grande ingiegno & no[n] di meno uirtu naq[ue] in arezzo nel borgo de lorto; <exp> quando il petrarcha morì era il bocacio de minore etate di lui de an[n]i 9 & cossi p[er]successio[n]e andorono le muse);
 
fol. 1r: title (‘Soneto primo’), followed by RVF 1.1;
 
fol. 1v: blank;
 
fols. 1v-98v: RVF 4-263;
 
fols. 99r-140r: RVF 264-366;
 
fol. 140v: blank;
 
fols. 140r-179v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 179v: colophon: finis;
 
fol. 180r: a two-line quotation from Triumphus Eternitatis by a later sixteenth-century hand;
 
fol. 180v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Canonici Ital. 68
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Fol. 10 (where presumably RVF 23.164-169, 24, 25, 26 and 27.1-6 were copied) is missing.
 
The upper part of fol. 2 has been cut out, as well as the upper part of fols. 99, 141, 153, 157, 167, 174, and 177 (where the initials for RVF 264, Triumphus Amoris I, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Temporis, and Eternitatis were placed); some maniculae.

Bibliography

Mann 1975, 391-94; Mortara 1864, 86-87