Overview
Venice
Italy
RVF 1-136, Triumphi
Description
folio; A-H8, I-K6, a10, b-g8, h6, i-x8, y-z6; [76], [180] fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems and commentary in gothic type; no printed numbering; some of Petrarch’s poems set on left in small block, with commentary distributed on three sides; some other of Petrarch’s poems set on left in a sequence of blocks, with commentary distributed in single column on right.
<inc> Prohemio del prestante Oratore et Poeta Messer Francesco Philelpho al Illustrissimo et inuictissimo principe Philippo Maria Anglo Duca de Milano circa lainterpretatione per lui sopra gli sonetti & cançone de messer Franc. Petrarcha facta
First part
A1v: Filelfo’s dedicatory letter to Filippo Maria Visconti;
A2r-K6r: RVF 1-136 with Filelfo’s commentary;
K6r: register and colophon: Finisse il commento deli Sonetti et Cançone del Petrarcha: composto per el presta[n]tissimo oratore et poeta Messer Francesco Philelpho. Impresso nella inclyta Citta da Uenezia:per Leonardu[m] Wild de Ratisbona nelli anni del Signore.M.cccc.lxxxi;
K6v: blank;
Second part
a1r-a1v: blank;
a2r: Ilicino’s dedicatory letter to Borso d’Este;
a2v-a4r Ilicino’s prologue to his commentary;
a4v-z5r: Triumphi with Ilicino’s commentary;
z5r: colophon: Finisse il co[m]mento deli triumphi del Petrarcha composto per il prestantissimo philosopho chiamato messer Bernardo da Sena: Impresso nella inclyta citta da Uenexia p[er] Leonardu[m] Wild da Ratisbona nelli anni de signore.M.cccc.lxxxi;
z5v-z6v: blank.
Copy Seen
John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom
John Rylands Library copy contains only RVF; fol. a1 is missing; decorated initial for RVF 1.