Overview
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RVF 23, 34, 36, 44, 46, 49, 58, 60, 64, 66, 69, 73, 77, 80, 121, 145, 147, 150-152, 154-156, 159, 179, 160, 188, 191-1943, 196-197, 199, 207, 211, 265, 268, 270, 297-298, 300, 303, 321-324; Triumphus Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Eternitatis, and Fame IIa
Description
280x208 mm; III+ 73 + II fols.
paper; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line, with annotations irregularly distributed on the sides.
Nel dolce tempo de la prima etade
fols. 1r-31v: selection of RVF poems (RVF 23, 34, 36, 44, 46, 49, 58, 60, 64, 69, 77, 145, 147, 150-152, 154-156, 159, 179, 160, 188, 191-1943, 196-197, 199, 207.1-39, 211, 265, 268, 270.1-75, 297-298, 300, 303, 321-324) with annotations;
fol. 32r: some lines from RVF 66, 73, 80, and 121, and the dispersa ‘Donna mi viene spesso nella mente’ with marginal annotations;
fol. 32v: blank;
fols. 33r-73r: eleven capitoli from the Triumphi with annotations (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Eternitatis, and Fame IIa (on this text, see Weiss 1950 and Ariani 1988);
fol. 73v: blank.
Material Copy
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Marginal annotations by a different hand provide variant readings, some of which derived from two mss. owned by Petrarch; see the note at the bottom of fol. 33r: ‘Nota che la diuersa lettione et correttioni di questo p[rim]o cap[itol]o estate tratta da duo originali di mano de Petrarca luno de quali pareua il posterior et scritto con. Manco litture et le mutationi di quello sono le mutate notate nel 2o cap[itol]o et in queste oue sia signato questo segno † laltre son tratte dfa un suo scartafazzo che fu forse la sua prima compositione di questo cap[itol]o et del 2o’. Further annotations in Latin (often at the top of the fols., but also in the margins) give some historical or context-related explanations (e.g., at fol. 1r, before RVF 23 is the note: ‘Transcripta in ordine post multos et multos annos quibusdam mutatis 1356 Jouis in uesperis 10 nouembris Mediolani’; or at fol. 33r, before Triumphus Amoris I is the note: ‘Triumphus. Cupidinis et c[etera] 1357 Veneris hora \ uesp[eris] \ 8 sept[embris] Gragnani \ unde abitu[m] meditor \ imbribus fessus \ occurrit \ haec uaganti ualde animo Require pro correctione si sit \ opus \ hac papiro’).
At fol. 1r is a note of possession (‘datto alla sposa Maria a conto di sua fattura 2 10: marzo 1696 Adi 17’).
Harl. Mss 1808, III, 13; Iter, IV, 167b; Mann 1975, 280-81; Wanley 1966, II, 312 (n° 2)
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Ariani 1988, 433-47; Weiss 1950