Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
RVF, Triumphi
Description
285x178 mm; 81 (unnumbered) + 170 + I fols.
paper; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; two architectural frames.
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fols. 11r-11v: blank;
fol. 21r: attached square piece of paper containing possession note for the ms. (‘liber expetri & andreae de Campi [†††] flor[entiae] Del Sig[nor] Miglior Guadagni’);
fol. 21v: blank;
fol. 31r: title page (‘II PETRARCA (Francesco) Sonetti Canzoni, e Trionfi Cod. 45’);
fol. 31v: blank;
fol. 41r: few lines indicating the original provenance of the ms. from the ‘Fursureorum’ academy and its later entry into the library of Rosso Antonio Martini, member of the Accademia della Crusca;
fol. 41v: blank: fol. 51r: few lines indicating its original shelfmark in the Magliabechiana library: ‘Magl. VII 1262’;
fol. 51v: blank;
fols. 61r-61v: description of the content of the ms. and list of its possessors: Petrus de Campi, Petrus del Nero, and Miglior Guadagni;
fol. 71r: title page: (‘PETRARCA (Francesco) Sonetti, Canzoni, e Trionfi’);
fols. 71v-81v: blank;
fols. 1r-6r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 6v: blank;
fols. 7r-96r: RVF 1-263;
fol. 96r: colophon: FINIS VITE VETERIS;
fol. 96v: blank;
fols. 97r-134v: RVF 264-366;
fol. 134v: colophon: FINITA LAMORTE DELLAURA;
fols. 135r-136v: blank;
fols. 137r-170v: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 170v: colophon: FINITI I TRIVNFI DIMESSER FRANCESCHO PETRARCA POETA FIORENTINO.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
Fols. 11-81: annotations are due to Vincenzo Follini (1759-1836), librarian at the Biblioteca Magliabechiana, Florence.
Sonnet ‘Donna che lieta colprincipio nostro’ has been copied twice, at fols. 119r-119v and at fol. 127v. In the latter fol., next to the first line of the sonnet, there is a marginal annotation stating that the poem has been already written as RVF 331 (‘eschritto unaltra uolta a fo 331’).
At fols. 7r and fol. 135r, there is an architectural frame with floral decorations; numerous maniculae.
Mazzatinti, X, 31-32; MIF II (1881), 62