Overview
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France
RVF 1-103
Description
253x175 mm; I + 157 + II fols.
parchment; humanistic hand; each RVF poem (or stanza of canzone) is followed by commentary distributed across the page beneath it; one half-page illumination, one architectural frame, and decorated initals.
Canzon e Soneti di messer Francescho Petrarcha | Poeta eloquentissimo cu[m] le expositio[n]e di messer | Francescho philelpho poeta laureato & oratore | prestantissimo
fol. Ir: blank;
fol. Iv: title page (‘Canzon e Soneti di messer Francescho Petrarcha Poeta eloquentissimo cu[m] le expositio[n]e di messer Francescho philelpho poeta laureato & oratore prestantissimo’);
fols. 1r-157r: RVF 1-103 with commentary by Filelfo (<inc of commentary> Quantunque il p[rese]nte sonetto fusse da messer francesco petrarca i[n] questa leggiadra e suauissima opera i[n] luogho di p[re]fatione collocato no[n] fu pero el primo chegli facesse; <exp of commentary> la qual cosa facendo dice che[t]i[an]dio di poi la morte i[n] migliaia dani hara di tal op[er]atio[n]e grandissimo honore & fama);
fol. 157r: colophon: Philipus Henzola scripsit, followed by a note by a similar hand (‘de pauye a roy loys XIIe’);
fol. 157v: blank.
Material Copy
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris
France
At fol. 1r is an illumination representing Petrarch sitting under a canopy (held by two flying cupids) and reading his poems to Laura, who stands in front of him under the canopy; above them a blind cupid shots an arrow towards Petrarch (the illumination occupies the upper part of the fol.). Decorated initial for RVF 1 (fol. 1r); at fol. 1r is also an architectural frame with the coat of arms of the Visconti at the bottom of the fol.
A microfilm (13824) was used to create this entry.
Iter, III, 304b; Marsand, I, 127-28 (n° 117); Pellegrin 1966, 172 (= II, 350)
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Bessi 1987; Marcelli 2015