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[RVF 1-103 with Filelfo’s commentary]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Comunale Labronica ‘Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi’
Livorno
Italy

Shelfmark
091 MSS sez. XVI n. 17 (Inv. 448)
Date
third quarter of the fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF 1-103

Description

Physical Description: Format

306x203 mm; II + 173 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; each poem (or stanza of canzone) is followed by commentary distributed across the page beneath it; decorated initial.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc > [ex abrupto] [††]pie [⎯]se [⎯]e focose e fi[⎯]nte fr[⎯]çe damore et p[er] mostrare al [⎯] essere libero da qu[⎯] ar[⎯] e dai cui strali gia [⎯]ra molti e [⎯] anni

Internal Description

fols. 1r-173r: Filelfo’s commentary on RVF 1 (<inc of commentary > [ex abrupto] [††]pie [⎯]se [⎯]e focose e fi[⎯]nte fr[⎯]çe damore et p[er] mostrare al [⎯] essere libero da qu[⎯] ar[⎯] e dai cui strali gia [⎯]ra molti e [⎯] anni; <exp of commentary> lhomo considerando seco il fastidio se ne pente & hane infamia), followed by RVF 2-103 with Filelfo’s commentary (<inc of commentary> Era il giorno. Comencia il secundo soneto del p[rese]nte primo libro: quantunque da molti ordinato sia nel terzo luoco: ma se cu[m] diligentia considerare uoremo lamoroso p[ri]ncipio comprehenderemo questo prima di tutti douere seguir doppo la prefatione an[te]dicta; <exp of commentary> laqual cosa facendo dice che et[iam]dio dippo la morte in migliaia danni hara di tal operatione grandissimo honore & fama); a different contemporary hand added the sentence ‘et sira tenuto fra li homini beati’ next to the last word;
 
fol. 173r: colophon: Finis Laus deo;
 
fol. 173v: scattered words by a different hand.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Comunale Labronica ‘Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi’
Livorno
Italy

Shelfmark
091 MSS sez. XVI n. 17 (Inv. 448)
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Scattered marginal annotations by various contemporary hands include: very short summaries of some passages of the commentary; addiction of a few words to the commentary; orthographical corrections of some words; word captions of significant passages of the commentary; and scattered words (unrelated to the exegetical text); some maniculae.
 
Decorated initial in gold for RVF 22 (fol. 41v).

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