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[RVF with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Med. Pal. 84
Creator
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF

Description

Physical Description: Format

250x167 mm; II + 148 + II fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame; decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Voi chascoltate in rime sparse ilsuono

Internal Description

fols. 1r-139v: RVF;
 
fol. 139v: colophon: Deo gratias Amen;
 
fol. 140r-140v: blank;
 
fols. 141r-147v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 148r-148v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Med. Pal. 84
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

Fol. 1r has a rich architectural frame with floral decorations, containing small animals and cupids, with an erased coat of arms at the bottom of the fol.
 
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (enriched with floral decoration) and 2.

Bibliography

CPR, 32