Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
Most of the annotations concern the Triumphus Amoris and provide references to historical and mythological names. Another semi-gothic hand provides biographical sketches of historical and mythological figures or illustrates myths (e.g. next to Triumphus Amoris I.154-156, the annotator briefly recalls the myth of Apollo and Daphne: ‘Quia adamauit Daphne filia[m] penei[s] flu[men] tesalici a cupidine uulneratus’). Occasional marginal annotations (by the same hand that transcribed the main text) next to RVF poems either record variant readings or insert missing lines.
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 2r) and Triumphus Amoris I (fol. 96r); historiated initial in gold for RVF 2 (fol. 2r) showing Petrarch in a pink and blue habit holding a closed book; few maniculae.
Fol. 125 is missing.