Overview
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia, Mortis Ia
Description
240x152 mm; IX + 162 + II fols.
paper (except fols. I, II, 1, 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, 28-29, 35-36, 42-43, 49-50, 56-57, 63-64, 70-71, 77-78, 84-85, 91-92, 98-99, 105-106, 112-113, 119-120, 126-127, 138-139, 150-151, 162, and I in parchment); two scripts: humanistic script for main text, mercantesca for the index (fols. IVv-VIIv); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.
<inc> Apie decollj oue Labella vesta (fol. IVv)
fols. IVv-VIIv: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. VIIIr-IXv: blank;
fols. 1r-127v: RVF 1-366 with additional dispersa ‘DONNA miuenne spesso nellamente’ at fol. 46r;
fol. 127v: colophon: DEO GRATIAS Amen;
fol. 128r-162r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Castitatis, Mortis Ia + Mortis I.4-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 162r: colophon: FINITI ETRIOMPHI DIMESSER FRA[N]CESCO PETRARCHA CLARISSIMO POETA FIORENTINO LAUS SOII [sic] DEO;
fol. 162r-162v: Petrarch’s Latin poem in praise of Mary Magdalene (<inc> Dulcis amica dei lacrimis inflectere nostris; <exp> Carmina corporeo decarcere digna fuisti);
fol. 162v: colophon: Suprascripta fuerunt edita p[er] dominum Franciscum Petrarcham ad honorem et laudem beate marie magdalene. Amen: Laus immortali deo.
Other contents:
fol. IIIr: Giovanni Boccaccio’s epitaph (‘Carmina sepulchri d[omi]nj Iohan[n]is bocchacij poetj florentinj’; <inc> hac submole iacenti cineres ac ossa Iohannis; <exp> Patria certaldum studium fuit alma poesis) followed by Coluccio Salutati’s Latin epitaph for Boccaccio (‘Coluccius’; <inc> Inclite cur uates humili sermone locutus; <exp> p[er] celebre[m] faciunt etas te nulla silebit);
fol. IIIv;
fol. IVr: eight-line illegible poem.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy
At fol. 56v-57r RVF 136-138 have been crossed out by pen.
CPR, 29
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Rossetti 1834, 19-22