Overview
Sant’Orso
Italy
RVF, Triumphi
Description
folio; *8, a-c10, d8, e-l10, m8, n12, o10, p8, q10, r8, *4; [176] fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems in roman type, printed with one verse per line, and prose texts; no printed numbering.
<inc> A piedi colli dela bella vesta a Ca. iii
First part
*1r-*1v: blank;
*2r-*7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
*8r: index of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
*8v: Petrarch’s note on Laura;
a1r-n12v: RVF;
n12v: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISSIMI RERVM VVULGARVM FRAGMENTA EXPLICIVNT;
Second part
o1r-r7v: Triumphi;
r7v: colophon: FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISSIMI TRIVMPHI EXPLICIVNT;
r8r-*3r: [Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (<inc> Francesco Petrarcha homo di grande ingegno et non di me[n] uirtu naque i[n] areczo nel borgo di lorto; <exp> Di che morto il Petrarcha le muse sue ritenne e quasi hereditario successore Rimaseno adunche al bochazio et in lui risedette la fama de poetici studii e fu successione anchora nel tempo pero che quando el Petrarcha mori era il bochazio di minor eta de lui de anni.ix.et cosi per successione andorono le muse finis VITE. F. P.);
*3r-*3v: two sonnets in praise of Petrarch (‘Si dentro dil mio Cor depinto porto’ and ‘O felice auctor secunda fama’);
*3v: colophon: Francisci Petrarche laureati poetae necnon secretarii apostolici benemeriti. Rerum uulgariu[m] fragme[n]ta ex originali libro extracta. Vrbs Basilea mihi nome[n] e[st] Leo[n]ardus achates: Anno christi humanati.M.cccc.lxxiiii. Venet[iarum]. Duce. Nicol[ao]. Marcel[lo];
*4r-*4v: blank.
Copy Seen
John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom
British Library
London
United Kingdom
British Library copy is missing fols. *1r-*8v. Decorated initial for RVF 1 and coloured initial for all the other RVF poems; a few hand-written annotations clarify difficult expressions used in the poems.