Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia
Description
281x184 mm; II +A-D (unnumbered) + 149 + III fols.
paper; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line in a central block with commentary distributed on either the right or left margin.
<inc> Apie de choli
fol. IIr: sixteenth-century note: ‘Libro de mis[ser] Francescho con Madona laura [ge]ntilissima signora Come lui cerchaua farli gr[—] apiaceri et sanno come d[e] fuor si [†]cermo guando [sic] voi [—] ai una p[er]çona grandissimamente 1545/23 Zonaio in Venezia’;
fol. IIv: blank;
fols. Ar-Dr: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. Dv: blank;
fol. 13 (misplaced fol.): RVF 36-37.1-73 with commentary;
fols. 1r-119r: RVF with commentary (<inc> In prenzipio dequestopra se die sapere che miß[er] franz[esc]o petrarcha fue poeta fiorentino nato apreso areggio; <exp> dimanda miß[er] f[rancesc]o amare insuo aiuto halinggegno hafanato [sic]);
fol. 119r: colophon: Amen;
fol. 119v: index of the first lines of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance (‘Ordine trionfi’);
fols. 120r-149v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis) with commentary (<inc> laintenzion de lautore einexaltarlalaura in questa opra; <exp> questultimo trionfo del giudizio nelquale miß[er] f[rancesc]o mete lalaura inzielo et parla hasisteso);
fol. 149v: colophon: finis.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice
Italy
The anonymous commentary written in the margins of this manuscript consists of a set of short exegetical annotations by the same hand in either Italian or Latin (a few lines for almost every composition), mainly describing the content of the poem or stanza they refer to, or focusing on historical issues.
Further marginal annotations provide either variant readings, or missing lines; some maniculae.
Fol. 13 has been misplaced and was bounded before fol. 1.
The RVF section of the manuscript gathers 410 poems (all considered as Petrarchan).
For the identification of the copyist of this ms., see MssVI, 93.
CPR, 358; CPVe, 1
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MssVI, 93