Overview
University of Liverpool Library
Liverpool
United Kingdom
RVF 1-12
Description
290x200 mm; II + 120 + II fols.
paper; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; decorated initial.
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fols. 1r-8r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 8v-9v: blank;
fols. 10r-12v: RVF 1-12;
fol. 13r: excerpts from three pseudo-Petrarchan epistles (two in vernacular and one in Latin) penned by a eighteenth / nineteenth-century hand;
fol. 13v: blank;
Other contents:
fols. 14r-15r: index of chapters of Saint Jerome’s legend;
fol. 15v: blank;
fols. 16r-120r: vernacular translation of Saint Jerome’s legend (‘Jnchomincia lapistola delbeato Eusebio laquale mando albeato dalmaso uescouo diportuense E a theodoro senatore deroma della morte delglorioso messere s[an]to Jerolimo co[n]fessore et dottore et excelentissimo’);
fol. 120v: twenty-line poem in terza rima by anonymous author (‘O falso mondo pieno dimolti inghannj’).
Material Copy
University of Liverpool Library
Liverpool
United Kingdom
RVF 13-366 are missing due to the loss of fols.
Next to the lines of RVF are occasional Latin annotations either explaining some obscure passages or providing the date of Petrarch’s love for Laura (next to RVF 3.2 at fol. 1r: ‘dies ueneris su. in an[n]o d[omi]ni 1327 de mense aprilis’).
Decorated initial in pen for RVF 1 (fol. 10r).
On Petrarch’s forged epistles see Wilkins 1959.
Iter, IV, 51a; Ker, III, 305-06; Mann 1975, 203-04
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Wilkins 1959