Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
RVF
Description
218x141 mm; IV + 164 + III fols.
parchment; three scripts: cursive humanistic script (fols. 1-18r), semi-gothic hand (fols. 18v-163v), and sixteenth-century script (fol. 164); Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; decorated initials.
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fols. Ir-IIIv: blank;
fol. IVr: note of possession (‘Uberti Nobilij Joan[n]j filij’) and some strokes of pen;
fol. IVv: blank;
fols. 1r-115r: 268 poems mostly from the first part of RVF (the last poem of the part ‘In vita’ is RVF 190);
fol. 114r: colophon: finita la uita e comi[n]cia la morte;
fols. 115v-163v: RVF 264-366, among which there are five disperse (RVF 366 is poem n. 371 of the ms.);
fol. 163v: colophon: Deo Gratias Ame[n];
fol. 164r-164v: partial alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet [from A to I], poems are listed in order of appearance) (‘Tauola’);
fol. Ir: a few scattered lines by a later hand;
fol. Iv: blank.
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
Scattered very short marginal annotations by a later sixteenth-century hand either refer to the names mentioned in Petrarch and the rhetorical figures employed, or provide alternative readings and missing words or lines; some maniculae and passages highlighted by vertical strokes close to the end of the lines; running header for each RVF poem.
At the bottom of fol. 163v, a different sixteenth-century hand wrote ‘Finisce il Petrarcha’. This note is followed by a library note dating to the nineteenth century.
At fols. 107v-108r, RVF 171 has been copied twice. The second transcription was crossed out by pen.
Decorated initial in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 1r).
Mazzatinti, XI, 256