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[RVF 366 with Bruni’s life of Petrarch]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Civica A. Hortis
Trieste
Italy

Shelfmark
I 24
Date
mid-fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF 366

Description

Physical Description: Format

262x185 mm; I + 48 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic cursive hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line and prose text.

Title Page

‘Incomincia lauita di mess[er] franciescho Petrarca composta pello excellentissimo huomo Mess[er] Lionardo dareço’ (fol. 37v)

Internal Description

fols. 37v-41v: Leonardo Bruni’s life of Petrarch (‘Incomincia lauita di mess[er] franciescho Petrarca composta pello excellentissimo huomo Mess[er] Lionardo dareço’; <inc> Francescho petrarca huomo digrande i[n]gegnio et no[n] di minore uirtu; <exp> Massime p[er]che lauirtu e cierta, et lacorona taluolta p[er]lieue giudicio, cosi achi non merita come achi merita dar sipuote);
 
fol. 41v: colophon: Explicit;
 
fols. 44v-47r: RVF 366 (‘Morale di mess[er] Franciesco petrarcha illaude della uergine M[ari]a’);
 
Other contents:
 
fols. 1r-24v: prose by anonymous author on religious and moral matters (‘Rosarium odor vitae’);
 
fols. 24v-29r: Bruni’s Novella di Antioco (‘Qui comincia una nouella di mess[er] Lionardo dareço p[er]luj composta’);
 
fols. 29r-37v: Bruni’s life of Dante (‘Comincia lauita di Dante discripta p[er] mess[er] Lionardo darezzo’);
 
fols. 41v- 44v: two poems by Simone Serdini (ternario ‘Madre di xr[ist]o gloriosa et pura’, canzone ‘Domine ne infurore tuo argas me’);
 
fols. 47r-48v: Simone Serdini’s canzone (‘Madre dceleste stella matutina’);
 
fol. 48v: Jacopone da Todi’s laude (‘Cinque sensi missompegnio’).

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Civica A. Hortis
Trieste
Italy

Shelfmark
I 24
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

Lines 40-52 are missing in RVF 366.

Bibliography

Iter, II, 199a-199b; Zamponi 1984, 80-82