Overview
Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea
Ferrara
Italy
RVF, Triumphi
Description
229x163 mm; II + 190 + I fols. (foliation has been put into square brackets for final unnumbered folios).
paper; sixteenth-century cursive script; text structured in two columns: left column: reference to first line of the poem; right column: single lines of Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.
<inc> RIMARIO. DE. LE. CADENTIE. DIL. [sic] PETRARCHA. CON. GLI. VERSI. INTERI. TVTTI. POSTI. PER. ORDINE
fols. 1r-182v: anonymous rimario of RVF and Triumphi (‘RIMARIO. DE. LE. CADENTIE. DIL. [sic] PETRARCHA. CON. GLI. VERSI. INTERI. TVTTI. POSTI. PER. ORDINE’; <inc> PRIMA. PARTE. IN. LA. QVUAL. SI. CONTENGONO. LE. CADENTIE. IN. A.; <exp> ‘Ecco Cin da Pistoia, Guitton d’Arezzo | Ecco i duo Guidi, che gia fieno in prezzo | Che fur gia primi e guiui eran da sezzo’);
fol. 182v: colophon: IL. FINE. DE. GLI. VERSI. DIL. [sic] PETRARCHA. CHE. FINISCONO. IN. O. ET. INSIEME. DI. TVTT’IL. RIMARIO);
fol. 183r: brief paragraph introducing four forgotten lines at fol. 175v (‘Alle. 175. carte, alla. z. faccia dou’è’ segnata la stella. Mancano gli seguenti .4. uersi [followed by quotation of RVF 113.2-3,6-7]’);
fol. 183v: blank;
fols. [184r]-[190r]: alphabetical index of the rhymes (‘TAVOLA. DE. TVTTE. LE. DESINENTIE. DEL. PETRARCHA. CO’L. NVMERO. D’I. VERSI. CH’IN. ESSE. SI. CONTENGONO);
Other contents:
fol. 190r: lines 1-4 of [Luigi Tansillo’s] canzone ‘Amor se no [sic] che torni al giogo antico’;
fol. 190v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea
Ferrara
Italy
Rhymes are listed alphabetically, but the order is particular because it is done according to the letter or syllable following the stressed one (as a consequence under the heading ‘ia’, ‘opia’ precedes ‘aria’) and any alphabeticization is made in relation to the stressed letter (therefore ‘ema’ preceeds ‘ima’). Lines of Petrarch’s poems are listed according to the sequence RVF, Triumphi, disperse. First letter of Petrarch’s lines, reference to the poem, and rhyme headings are in red ink.
Stein 1907, 242