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[RVF and Triumphi with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Chig. L.VI.217
Creator
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi

Description

Physical Description: Format

290x200 mm; VII + 141 + VI fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; two main humanistic scripts; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.

Title Page

<inc> Aseguitar questeychen [sic] fuga e uolta

Internal Description

fols. 1r: title page penned by an eighteenth-century hand: ‘SONETTI | E Canzoni | DI M[ESSER] FRANCESCO | PETRARCA |L’Indice di tutte l’Opere stà | nell’vltimo’;
 
fol. 1v: blank;
 
fols. 2r-71r: RVF 6.2-263;
 
fol. 71r: colophon: finit uita amoris;
 
fol. 71v: blank;
 
fols. 72r-104v: RVF 264-366;
 
fol. 104v: colophon: EXplicit liber. F[ranceschi] P[etrarce] L[aureati] poete Rer[u]m v[e]l vulgar[iu]m fragm[ent]a. Diis gratias agimus immortalibus qui hoc nobis munus p[re]stiterunt;
 
fol. 105r-105v: blank;
 
fols. 106r-134v: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie 1-95 (followed by three unidentified lines), Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II.1-111 + Fame III.22-120, Temporis, Eternitatis 1-42 + Fame II.115-161, Fame III.1-21, Eternitatis 43-145);
 
fol. 134v: colophon: DEO GRATIAS Laureati franceschi petrarçe poete Triu[m]phi expliciunt;
 
fol. 135r: scattered words at the top of the fol. ‘Amorte in petriosa’;
 
fol. 135v: blank;
 
fols. 136r-141v: index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Indice di tutti li Sonetti e Rime del Petrarcha che sono in questo libro’);
 
fol. 141v: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
 
fol. 141v: colophon: Deo gratias Amen.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Chig. L.VI.217
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

At the top of fol. 2r some illegibile words in a cursive hand. Fol. 83v: brief note by another likely contemporary hand on RVF 308: ‘Sorga fiume de la fra[n]cia i[n]germania Arni [sic] fiume d[i] fiorenza’.
 
At fol. 44r-44v RVF 136-138 have been crossed out by pen; next to the first line of RVF 136, a cursive hand wrote the incipit of the same sonnet. Equally, in the index of the poems at fol. 138r, the first lines of RVF 136-138 have been crossed out by pen.
 
Fol. 141v: note of possession penned in another hand: ‘Liber meij Antonii m.ri augustini demartiis’; some maniculae
 
A fol. containing RVF 1-6.1 is missing.

Bibliography

Narducci 1874, 19; Pellegrin 1976, 89-9
 
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Guerrini Ferri 2006, 181, 203, 210