Overview
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
RVF, Triumphi + Mortis Ia and Fame Ia
Description
219x149 mm; 236 fols.
paper; semi-gothic hand; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line.
<inc> Triumphus mortis
fols. 1r-49r: Triumphi (order: Mortis II, Fame Ia, Amoris II, Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis)
fols. 57r-226v: RVF;
fol. 226v: colophon: Qui finiscono lisonetti ellechançone elleballate dimess[er] francescho petrarcha dalancisa [sic] laureato poeta fiorentino ilquale mori ad Arqua uilla presso apadoua nellanno Mccclxxiiii del mese daghosto detade di lxxi anno. Scripti p[er] Me[sser] Pietro di Barth[olom]eo dapescia nellann notaro fiorentino p[er] mio uso nellan[n]o Mcccclviiii. Deo Gratias;
fol. 226v: Dante’s Paradiso XVII.58-66;
fols. 227r-234v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
fol. 235r: excerpt from Petrarch’s Epystole III.24 (‘franc[isc]i petrarce de laudibus ytalie’, <inc> Salue cara deo tellus sanctissima salue; <exp> excipit agnosco patriam gaudensq[ue] saluto);
Other contents:
fols. 49v-58v: canzone by anonymous author (‘Tenebrosa crudele auara et lorda’);
fols. 58v-56v: Pope Eugenius IV’s Act of Reconciliation between Oriental and Roman Churches (‘Concordia orientalis eccl[es]ie cum Romana eccl[es]ia’, <inc> Eugenius ep[iscopu]s seruus seuor[um] dey; <exp> Datum Florentie in sexione pub[li]ca synodali sole[m]pnit[er] in eccl[es]ia maiori celebrate Anno Incarnationis Dom[in]ice Mccccxxxix p[ri]die nonas Julii pontificat[us] n[ost]ri anno nono. Amen);
fol. 56v: colophon: finis. Seghuitano isonetti et cançone morali di Messere francescho petrarcha dalancisa [sic];
fol. 235v-236r: anonymous poem ‘Era tutta soletta’;
fol. 236v: four Latin epigrams written by a different humanistic hand (‘Mellit compo[s]itas linguas componit ineptas’, ‘Roma uetus ueteres dum te rexere quirites’, ‘Ver tibi contribuat sua munera florea grata’, and ‘Sum terris celebrata potens s[u]b marte sup[er]bo’).
Material Copy
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy
In the margin of fol. 29r, the copyist wrote Triumphus Mortis Ia.
Scattered marginal and interlinear annotations by the same hand either correct mistakes in the text, or add a missing word or line; some maniculae.
At fol. 236v, the first three epigrams are written by a round humanistic hand and the fourth by a cursive humanistic hand.
Datati, IX, 29-30; Ms.Pal. 1, 202; Prev-Ms.Pal 1, 351