Overview
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
RVF
Description
140x235 mm; II + 157 + II fols.
parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; historiated initials.
<inc> A pie decolli oue labella uesta
fols. 1r-7r: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 7v: blank;
fols. 8r-157v: RVF;
fol. 157v: colophon: FINIS.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
At fol. 8r is a historiated initial in gold for RVF 1 showing Petrarch in profile holding a closed book.
Above each of RVF poems is a running header written in red ink with the numbers of the poems written in sequence; the last poem (RVF 366) is numbered 358.
Bandini, It, 102-03; CPR, 18
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Belloni 2006, 159