Overview
Biblioteca Statale
Lucca
Italy
RVF
Description
208x148 mm; IV + 226 + III1 fols.
paper; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame and decorated initials.
<inc> A pie de colli de labella uesta
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
Biblioteca Statale
Lucca
Italy
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.
CPR, 112 (with reference to previous shelfmark: 1309); Ms.LU, I.2, 10v