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[RVF with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Nacional de España
Madrid
Spain

Shelfmark
2889
Creator
Date
1455
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF

Description

Physical Description: Format

265x158 mm; II + 61 + 129 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

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

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> A Pie de colli oue ela bella uesta

Internal Description

fol. Ir: shelfmark by a later hand;
 
fol. Iv: blank;
 
fol. IIr: title by a later hand (‘Le Rime di M[esser] Francesco Petrharca [sic]’);
 
fol. IIv: blank;
 
fol. 11r: a note by a later hand (‘subcorrectione sanctae aeclesiae’);
 
fols. 11r-61v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed according to order of appearance);
 
fols. 1r-93r: RVF 1-263;
 
fol. 93v: blank;
 
fols. 94r-129r: RVF 264-366;
 
fol. 129r: colophon: Per me presbiteru[m] francischu[m] de s[an]ctouito. 1455. die 29 april;
 
fol. 129v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Nacional de España
Madrid
Spain

Shelfmark
2889
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

Decorated initial in gold for RVF 1 (fol. 1r); coloured initial for all the other RVF poems; at the bottom of fol. 1r is a coat of arms.
 
At fol. 44r, RVF 114.1-2 have been scratched out, and later re-written by a later hand. At fols. 58v-59r, RVF 136-138 are crossed out by pen, but are still legible.

Bibliography

Domínguez Bordona 1933, I, 267 (n° 561); Inv. BNEsp, IX, 78-88; Villar 1995, 127-28