[Anonymous commentary on Antonio da Ferrara’s canzone ‘Io gia letto il planto de troianj’]

271x211 mm. (fol. 90v: 271x231 mm.); I + 94 + I fols.

paper; gothic hand; Petrarch’s poem with one verse per line, Antonio da Ferrara’s canzone set in a sequence of blocks, with commentary distributed on all four sides, and prose texts.

‘Incipuit psalmi Septem i[n]titulati penitentiales quos doctor d[omi]nis franciscus petrarcha poeta laureatus composuit’ (fol. 78r)

fol. 78r-80r: Petrarch’s Penitential Psalms (‘Incipuit psalmi Septem i[n]titulati penitentiales quos doctor d[omi]nis franciscus petrarcha poeta laureatus composuit. Psalmis primus’; <inc> Heu michi misero, quia Jratus adu[er]sus me c[on]stitui redemptores; <exp> Sicut erat inp[ri]ncipio et nunc, et semp[er], et i[n] seculla sec[u]llorum. Amen);
 
fols. 85r-86v: certificate of Petrarch’s coronation (‘Priuilegui [sic] Laureato[n]is famosissimi poete d[omi]ni frsanciscj petrace [sic] de Flore[n]tia concessi [sic] per illustres Senatores Romanos; <inc> Ad etern[am]n rey memoria[m]. Vrsus anguillarie comes et Jordamus de filis alme urbis; <exp> ponceletus sc[ri]ba senatus, subscriptu[m] p[er] me toma[m] ndam [sic] johan[n]is gregorij dei grati[a] Alme urbis prefectj auctoritate nota[r]ius, et scriba sacri senatus);
 
fols. 90v-92r: anonymous commentary on Antonio da Ferrara’s canzone ‘Io gia letto il planto de troianj’ (<inc> Mess[er] francescho petrarcha da firenze e uno ualoroso huomo di sciencia nato di cierchy de lato di madre et chiamossi il poeta nouello; <exp> e p[er] che tante la sua forma che si spande p[er] ogni parte, si che tu m[†]nettiy [sic] pocho adendente, laltro poy ch[e] siegue nella detta stança, e chiaro al fine dela chançone);
 
fol. 92v: RVF 120 (‘R[espo]nssio d[omi]ni fra[n]cisci ad magi[stru]m Anth[oni]um’).
 
Other contents:
 
fols. 1r-7v: collection of sacred texts and scriptures (‘Vsaias’);
 
fol. 8r-8v: blank;
 
fols. 9r-52v: collection of sacred texts and scriptures;
 
fols. 53r-60r: Latin prose text (‘Aliqua p[ri]ncipia Epp[isto]llar[um] [sic]’);
 
fols. 60v-62v: blank;
 
fols. 63r-77r: Epistola Rabbi Samuelis (‘Incipit eppistolla [sic] quam missit Rabi Samuel’);
 
fol. 77v: blank;
 
fols. 80v-81v: Latin poems celebrating God and the Virgin Mary;
 
fols. 82r-83v: [Antonio da Ferrara’s] capitolo ‘Iscrissi gia damore piu uolte rime’;
 
fol. 84r-84v: Latin poems celebrating classical famous women;
 
fol. 87r-87v: Latin prose on Darius III defeated by Alexander the Great;
 
fols. 87v-88r: Latin epistle on the topic of chastity;
 
fols. 88v-90r: Latin epistle composed by the city of Florence against Gian Galeazzo Visconti (‘Epistolla [sic] diffamato[n]is d[omi]ni ducis mediolani comitis qs uirtutijs’);
 
fol. 93r-93v: Turkish emperor’s Latin letter to Pope Clement VI (‘Littera J[_]p[er]atoris turcho[tum] ad d[omi]n[um] clementem papam’);
 
fol. 93v: prose work on prophetic vision (‘Expositio libri achab q[ui] erat phisicus et magnus p[hilosop]hus et astronomichus’) penned by another probably contemporary hand;
 
fols. 94r: Latin prose work by another later hand (probably beginning of the sixteenth century) on matters of papal succession.