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[RVF and Triumphi – with annotations and index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Vat. Lat. 4783
Date
late-fourteenth century
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

289x207 mm; I + 184 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line, with annotations irregularly distributed on the sides.

Title Page

<inc> Quando muoio esospiri a chiamar uoi

Internal Description

fol. 1: missing;
 
fols. 2r-140v: RVF 5-366 with annotations;
 
fol. 140v: colophon: laus deo;
 
fols. 141r-178r: Triumphi with annotations (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis Ia, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 178v: colophon: τελοσ;
 
fols. 178v-184v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance).

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Vat. Lat. 4783
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Marginal annotations by at least two fifteenth-century hands include: addition of some missing lines; variant readings; historical and context-related Latin explanations (mainly on the Triumphi); and parallel passages drawn from Greek and Roman authors; some maniculae and passages highlighted by vertical strokes close to the end of the lines.
 
Fol. 1 (with RVF 1-4) has been lost after the page numbering was added to the ms.

Bibliography

Vattasso 1909, 43-45
 
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Contò 1998, 105-15; Guerrini Ferri 1986, 173; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 182 and 210; Pulsoni 2007, 64 and 67-68