Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
227x148 mm; I + 122 + I fols.
parchment; two hands: cursive humanistic script (fols. 1r-94v + 98v-122r) and round humanistic script (fols. 95r-98r); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
Poi [sic] che ascoltate in rime sparse ilsuono
fols. 1r-94v: RVF;
fol. 94v: colophon: finis;
fols. 95r-117r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia.1-21+Mortis I.4-172, Mortis II, Fame Ia.1-22(and the first half of l. 23)+Fame I.23(second half)-130, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
fol. 117r: colophon: finis sex Triunfo[rum] petrarce;
fols. 117v-121v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fols. 121v-122r: two sonnets (‘[A]y lingua ay penna mia che intante carte’ and ‘[B]en puoi le ladre luci aterra sparte’);
fol. 122r: two Latin translations in hexameters of RVF 134 and 132, respectively (1. <inc> [N]ec pacem inuenio nec adest adbella facultas; <exp> Inq[ue] statu tali pro uobis laurea dego; 2. <inc> [S]i fors non sit amor [i]g[itur] quid sentio? Uel si; <exp> Mensibus ybernis, mediq[ue] [sic] state [sic] tremisco);
fol. 122v: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
Scattered marginal annotations by the same hand provide variant readings, or correct mistakes in the text, or else add missing lines.
At fol. 42v, RVF 136-138 have been crossed out by pen, but are still legible.
Decorated initials for RVF 1, 2 (fol. 1r), and 264 (fol. 69r); coloured initials for all other RVF poems; decorated initials for the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; at fol. 95r is an architectural frame; a few maniculae.
Ms.Pal. 1, 194; Prev-Ms.Pal 1, 348
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Pulsoni 2007