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[RVF with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Statale
Lucca
Italy

Shelfmark
1326
Creator
Date
1500
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF

Description

Physical Description: Format

208x148 mm; IV + 226 + III1 fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

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

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> A pie de colli de labella uesta

Internal Description

fol. Ir-Iv: blank;
 
fol. IIr: scattered words by a later hand;
 
fols. IIv-IVv: blank;
 
fols.1r-10v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fols. 11r-162r: RVF 1-263;
 
fols. 162r-225v: RVF 264-366;
 
fol. 225v: colophon: Francisi [sic] petrarce poete excellentissimi rer[um] fragmenta vulgratiu[m] finiunt. Imposita extrema manus fuit xiij septembris MD;
 
fol. 226r-I1r: blank;
 
fol. I1v: note of possession by a later hand (‘Questo libro è di m[esse]r santti de barbieri da cammaiore qual mi presto l’aanno [sic] 1548 di maggio & cct’);
 
fol. II1r: a list of 40 Petrarchan poems by a different sixteenth-century hand with page references;
 
fol. II1v-III1v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Statale
Lucca
Italy

Shelfmark
1326
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Occasional marginal annotations by a later hand either add a few missing lines or correct some words.
 
Decorated initials in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 11r) and RVF 264 (fol. 162r); at fol. 11r is an architectural frame in gold with a coat of arms at the bottom of the fol.

Bibliography

CPR, 112 (with reference to previous shelfmark: 1309); Ms.LU, I.2, 10v