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[Selection of RVF poems and Triumphi with Bruni’s life of Petrarch]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Ross. 489
Date
fifteenth century
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

230x165 mm; V + 83+ V fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

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

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Francisci P[etrarcae] po[etae] clarissimi vita foeliciter incipit

Internal Description

fols. 1r-5v: [Bruni’s] life of Petrarch (‘Francisci P[etrarcae] po[etae] clarissimi vita foeliciter incipit’, <inc> Francesco petrarca huomo di grande ingegno et non diminore uirtu; <exp> maxime perche la uirtu e certa ella corona taluolta perlieue giudicio cosi achi merita come achi non merita dare si puo);
 
fols. 21r-46r: RVF 292-366;
 
fol. 46v: blank;
 
fols. 47r-83r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 83r: colophon: finis;
 
fol. 83v: colophon by a later hand: facto fini pia laudetur uirgo maria amen;
 
fol. 83v: scattered words by a different hand.
 
 

 

Other contents:
 
fols. 6r-20v: [Dante’s] eleven canzoni (‘Cosi nel mio parlar uoglio essere aspro’, ‘Voi chen tendendo [sic] ilterzo cel mouete’, ‘Amor che nella mente mi ragiona’, ‘Le dolci rime damor chio solea’, ‘Amor che muoui tua uirtu dal cielo’, ‘Io sento si damor la gran possanza’, ‘Al poco giorno & algran cerchio dombra’, ‘Amor tu uedi ben che questa donna’, ‘Io son uenuto al punto della rota’, ‘E mincresce dime si malamente’, and ll. 1-45 of ‘Poscia camor del tutto ma lasciato’).

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City
Vatican City

Shelfmark
Ross. 489
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

The fols. with the last part of Dante’s canzoni and the first part of RVF appear to have been lost before the ms. received its present binding.
 
Decorated initials in gold for Bruni’s life of Petrarch (fol. 1r), Dante’s canzone ‘Così nel mio parlar uoglio essere aspro’ (fol. 6r), and every first capitolo of the Triumphi (fols. 47r, 59r, 62v, 68v, 78r, and 80v); decorated initial for Triumphus Mortis II (fol. 65v).

Bibliography

Pellegrin 1976, 111-13; Iter, II, 466a
 
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Guerrini Ferri 1986, 73 and 76; Guerrini Ferri 2006, 182 and 210; Hankins 1997, 196